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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)

  1. (Internet, transitive) 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

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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

  1. privatenesses
  2. privater
  3. privates
  4. privates first class
  5. privatest
  6. privating
  7. privation
  8. privational
  9. privations
  10. privatisation
  11. privatisations

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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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