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unelecting

unelecting is the present participle and gerund of unelect.

Meaning of unelect

Verb

unelect (third-person singular simple present unelects, present participle unelecting, simple past and past participle unelected)

  1. (transitive) To vote (somebody previously elected) out of office.
    • In detailing the machinations of superrich Democratic activists like George Soros, who blew through close to $30 million of his wealth in an unsuccessful attempt to unelect George W. Bush in 2004, and barricade-bashing cyberpunks like Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, founder of the popular Daily Kos Web...2007 September 2, Nick Gillespie, “Democratic Vistas”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    vote out

Questions about unelecting

What is unelecting the present participle and gerund of?
Unelecting is the present participle and gerund of unelect.

Words near unelecting in the dictionary

  1. unelectable
  2. unelectables
  3. unelectably
  4. unelected
  5. unelectedness
  6. unelecting
  7. unelection
  8. unelections
  9. unelective
  10. unelectric
  11. unelectrical

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