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disapplying

disapplying is the present participle and gerund of disapply.

Meaning of disapply

Verb

disapply (third-person singular simple present disapplies, present participle disapplying, simple past and past participle disapplied)

  1. (transitive) To decline to apply a rule or law that previously applied
    • If we were to accept Amendment No. 144D, the effect of that would be to disapply the definition from properties that are not yet on the market.2004 October 19, House of Lords Hansard for 19 Oct 2004, pt 5

Questions about disapplying

What is disapplying the present participle and gerund of?
Disapplying is the present participle and gerund of disapply.

Words near disapplying in the dictionary

  1. disapplication
  2. disapplications
  3. disapplied
  4. disapplies
  5. disapply
  6. disapplying
  7. disappoint
  8. disappointable
  9. disappointed
  10. disappointedly
  11. disappointedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disapplying (page history and authors); disapply (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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