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disauthorize

disauthorize verb: to deprive of credit or authority; to discredit.

Verb

disauthorize (third-person singular simple present disauthorizes, present participle disauthorizing, simple past and past participle disauthorized)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit.
    • disauthorize a Note1651, Henry Wotton, A Philosophical Survey of Education

Forms of disauthorize

third-person singular presentdisauthorizes
present participledisauthorizing
past participledisauthorized
pastdisauthorized

Origin of disauthorize

From dis- + authorize.

Questions about disauthorize

What does disauthorize mean?
Disauthorize means to deprive of credit or authority; to discredit.
What part of speech is disauthorize?
Disauthorize is a verb.
What is the past tense of disauthorize?
The past tense of disauthorize is disauthorized.

Words near disauthorize in the dictionary

  1. disaugments
  2. disauthorise
  3. disauthorised
  4. disauthorises
  5. disauthorising
  6. disauthorize
  7. disauthorized
  8. disauthorizes
  9. disauthorizing
  10. disautonomia
  11. disavail

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