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graying out

graying out is the present participle and gerund of gray out.

Meaning of gray out

Verb

gray out (third-person singular simple present grays out, present participle graying out, simple past and past participle grayed out)

  1. To make (a visual element) gray or lighter in colour to indicate that it is disabled or unavailable.
    Synonyms:
    ghost

Questions about graying out

What is graying out the present participle and gerund of?
Graying out is the present participle and gerund of gray out.

Words near graying out in the dictionary

  1. grayhound
  2. grayhounds
  3. grayier
  4. grayiest
  5. graying
  6. graying out
  7. grayish
  8. grayishly
  9. grayishness
  10. grayite
  11. graylag

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Adapted from Wiktionary: graying out (page history and authors); gray out (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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