privating
privating is the present participle and gerund of private.
Meaning of private
Verb
private (third-person singular simple present privates, present participle privating, simple past and past participle privated)
- To make something hidden from the public (without deleting it permanently).
- During these negotiations, however, the Kleins say that Hosseinzadeh issued a copyright takedown for the video — even after it had already been privated.2016 May 25, Geoff Weiss, “H3h3Productions Sued For Copyright Infringement By MattHossZone, Spotlighting Fraught Issue Of Fair Use”, in Tubefilter
Questions about privating
- What is privating the present participle and gerund of?
- Privating is the present participle and gerund of private.
Words near privating in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: privating (page history and authors); private (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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