Word.ws English Dictionary

disclassify

disclassify verb: to remove from a class or classification; to decategorize.

Verb

disclassify (third-person singular simple present disclassifies, present participle disclassifying, simple past and past participle disclassified)

  1. (transitive) To remove from a class or classification; to decategorize.

Forms of disclassify

third-person singular presentdisclassifies
present participledisclassifying
past participledisclassified
pastdisclassified

Origin of disclassify

From dis- + classify.

Questions about disclassify

What does disclassify mean?
Disclassify means to remove from a class or classification; to decategorize.
What part of speech is disclassify?
Disclassify is a verb.
What is the past tense of disclassify?
The past tense of disclassify is disclassified.

Words near disclassify in the dictionary

  1. disclames
  2. disclaming
  3. disclarity
  4. disclassified
  5. disclassifies
  6. disclassify
  7. disclassifying
  8. disclaunder
  9. disclaundered
  10. discless
  11. disclike

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: disclassify (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “disclassify.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/disclassify. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.