Word.ws English Dictionary

undedicate

undedicate verb: to undo the dedication or earmarking of.

Verb

undedicate (third-person singular simple present undedicates, present participle undedicating, simple past and past participle undedicated)

  1. (rare, transitive) To undo the dedication or earmarking of.
    • She also failed in her attempts to "undedicate" the gasoline tax and Public University Fund so that more money would be available for human services; […]2010, Nancy Baker Jones, Ruthe Winegarten, Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999, page 247

Forms of undedicate

third-person singular presentundedicates
present participleundedicating
past participleundedicated
pastundedicated

Origin of undedicate

un- + dedicate

Questions about undedicate

What does undedicate mean?
Undedicate means to undo the dedication or earmarking of.
What part of speech is undedicate?
Undedicate is a verb.
What is the past tense of undedicate?
The past tense of undedicate is undedicated.

Words near undedicate in the dictionary

  1. undecylenic acid
  2. undecylic
  3. undecylic acid
  4. undecylprodigiosin
  5. undecyne
  6. undedicate
  7. undedicated
  8. undedicates
  9. undedicating
  10. undeduced
  11. undeducible

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: undedicate (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “undedicate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/undedicate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.