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unadopting

unadopting is the present participle and gerund of unadopt.

Meaning of unadopt

Verb

unadopt (third-person singular simple present unadopts, present participle unadopting, simple past and past participle unadopted)

  1. (transitive) To give up (someone or something previously adopted).
    • Persons holding to a view that allows for one to be unadopted must confront another major theological hurdle. Why would God choose before the foundation of the world to adopt someone He knew He would eventually have to unadopt?1990, Charles F. Stanley, Eternal Security, page 35

Questions about unadopting

What is unadopting the present participle and gerund of?
Unadopting is the present participle and gerund of unadopt.

Words near unadopting in the dictionary

  1. unadopt
  2. unadoptable
  3. unadopted
  4. unadopted road
  5. unadopted roads
  6. unadopting
  7. unadoption
  8. unadopts
  9. unadorable
  10. unadored
  11. unadoring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unadopting (page history and authors); unadopt (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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