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unauthorizing

unauthorizing is the present participle and gerund of unauthorize.

Meaning of unauthorize

Verb

unauthorize (third-person singular simple present unauthorizes, present participle unauthorizing, simple past and past participle unauthorized)

  1. (transitive) To disown the authority of; to repudiate.
  2. (transitive) To withdraw authorization or permissions from.
    • This group of users includes anyone who has created a user account but either hasn't verified their account through their email or has been unauthorized by the administrator.2015, Shaun Walker, Bruce Chapman, Cathal Connolly, Professional DNN7: Open Source .NET CMS Platform, page 157

Questions about unauthorizing

What is unauthorizing the present participle and gerund of?
Unauthorizing is the present participle and gerund of unauthorize.

Words near unauthorizing in the dictionary

  1. unauthorized term
  2. unauthorized terms
  3. unauthorizedly
  4. unauthorizedness
  5. unauthorizes
  6. unauthorizing
  7. unauthorly
  8. unautistic
  9. unautoclaved
  10. unautocorrelated
  11. unautocratic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unauthorizing (page history and authors); unauthorize (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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