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ungenerating

ungenerating is the present participle and gerund of ungenerate.

Meaning of ungenerate

Verb

ungenerate (third-person singular simple present ungenerates, present participle ungenerating, simple past and past participle ungenerated)

  1. To undo the act of generation; to uncreate.
    • Sensible people, says Madam Gamidge, are astonished to see how people with a title forgets themselves, as if the man that got the money, that bought the title, was not a better man than they that have it for nothing; but everthing here in this world ungenerates.1788, Robert Bage, James Wallace

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Questions about ungenerating

What is ungenerating the present participle and gerund of?
Ungenerating is the present participle and gerund of ungenerate.

Words near ungenerating in the dictionary

  1. ungeneralized
  2. ungeneralled
  3. ungenerate
  4. ungenerated
  5. ungenerates
  6. ungenerating
  7. ungenerative
  8. ungeneric
  9. ungenerical
  10. ungenerosities
  11. ungenerosity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ungenerating (page history and authors); ungenerate (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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