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downdating

downdating is the present participle and gerund of downdate.

Meaning of downdate

Verb

downdate (third-person singular simple present downdates, present participle downdating, simple past and past participle downdated)

  1. To alter, degrade or downgrade to an earlier or worse version, especially when it was intended to update.
  2. To undo an update.
    • I downdated the database to undo the most recent update.
  3. To date earlier.
    • These excavations should be downdated.

Questions about downdating

What is downdating the present participle and gerund of?
Downdating is the present participle and gerund of downdate.

Words near downdating in the dictionary

  1. downcycles
  2. downcycling
  3. downdate
  4. downdated
  5. downdates
  6. downdating
  7. Downderry
  8. downdip
  9. downdog
  10. downdogs
  11. downdoot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: downdating (page history and authors); downdate (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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