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distitling

distitling is the present participle and gerund of distitle.

Meaning of distitle

Verb

distitle (third-person singular simple present distitles, present participle distitling, simple past and past participle distitled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of a title or right.
    • the next way to distitle my selfe of honor1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby...
    Antonyms:
    entitle

Questions about distitling

What is distitling the present participle and gerund of?
Distitling is the present participle and gerund of distitle.

Words near distitling in the dictionary

  1. distitarsus
  2. distitibia
  3. distitle
  4. distitled
  5. distitles
  6. distitling
  7. disto-
  8. disto-occlusal
  9. distoangular
  10. distoangularly
  11. distoanterior

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Adapted from Wiktionary: distitling (page history and authors); distitle (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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