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disinforming

disinforming is the present participle and gerund of disinform.

Meaning of disinform

Verb

disinform (third-person singular simple present disinforms, present participle disinforming, simple past and past participle disinformed)

  1. (transitive) To supply with disinformation.
    • The relationship between memory as lived and history as documented is always a complex dialogue — each informing, and disinforming, the other.2009 May 25, “Of Memory and Israel”, in New York Times

Questions about disinforming

What is disinforming the present participle and gerund of?
Disinforming is the present participle and gerund of disinform.

Words near disinforming in the dictionary

  1. disinformations
  2. disinformative
  3. disinformed
  4. disinformer
  5. disinformers
  6. disinforming
  7. disinforms
  8. disinfotainment
  9. disingenious
  10. disingenous
  11. disingenuine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disinforming (page history and authors); disinform (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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