Word.ws English Dictionary

discommissioning

discommissioning is the present participle and gerund of discommission.

Meaning of discommission

Verb

discommission (third-person singular simple present discommissions, present participle discommissioning, simple past and past participle discommissioned)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of a commission or trust.
    • discommissioning nine great officers in the army1659, John Milton, letter to a friend concerning the ruptures of the Commonwealth

Questions about discommissioning

What is discommissioning the present participle and gerund of?
Discommissioning is the present participle and gerund of discommission.

Words near discommissioning in the dictionary

  1. discommends
  2. discommensurate
  3. discommensuration
  4. discommission
  5. discommissioned
  6. discommissioning
  7. discommissions
  8. discommodate
  9. discommodated
  10. discommodates
  11. discommodating

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: discommissioning (page history and authors); discommission (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: “discommissioning.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/discommissioning. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.