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unhyphenating

unhyphenating is the present participle and gerund of unhyphenate.

Meaning of unhyphenate

Verb

unhyphenate (third-person singular simple present unhyphenates, present participle unhyphenating, simple past and past participle unhyphenated)

  1. (transitive) To remove or displace a hyphen from.
    • The dictionary chose to unhyphenate "cry-baby", and listed it as "crybaby".

Questions about unhyphenating

What is unhyphenating the present participle and gerund of?
Unhyphenating is the present participle and gerund of unhyphenate.

Words near unhyphenating in the dictionary

  1. unhypermethylated
  2. unhyphenatable
  3. unhyphenate
  4. unhyphenated
  5. unhyphenates
  6. unhyphenating
  7. unhyphened
  8. unhypnotic
  9. unhypnotisable
  10. unhypnotised
  11. unhypnotizable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhyphenating (page history and authors); unhyphenate (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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