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discommending

discommending is the present participle and gerund of discommend.

Meaning of discommend

Verb

discommend (third-person singular simple present discommends, present participle discommending, simple past and past participle discommended)

  1. (archaic) To show disapproval of (something or someone), to find fault with.
    Antonyms:
    commend, praise
  2. (archaic) To speak dissuasively of (something or someone), to advise against.
    • Near-synonyms: disrecommend, unrecommend (rare); deprecate, discourage, pooh-pooh

Questions about discommending

What is discommending the present participle and gerund of?
Discommending is the present participle and gerund of discommend.

Words near discommending in the dictionary

  1. discommendation
  2. discommendations
  3. discommended
  4. discommender
  5. discommenders
  6. discommending
  7. discommends
  8. discommensurate
  9. discommensuration
  10. discommission
  11. discommissioned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: discommending (page history and authors); discommend (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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