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uninstalling

uninstalling is the present participle and gerund of uninstall.

Meaning of uninstall

Verb

uninstall (third-person singular simple present uninstalls, present participle uninstalling, simple past and past participle uninstalled)

  1. To completely remove hardware or software from a computer system.
    • Apple devices are more conservative with preinstalled apps, but there is a core group of iOS apps you can't uninstall.2013 December 24, Heather Kelly, “Tips for getting started with your new mobile gadget”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2016

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Questions about uninstalling

What is uninstalling the present participle and gerund of?
Uninstalling is the present participle and gerund of uninstall.

Words near uninstalling in the dictionary

  1. uninstallation
  2. uninstallations
  3. uninstalled
  4. uninstaller
  5. uninstallers
  6. uninstalling
  7. uninstallment
  8. uninstalls
  9. uninstanced
  10. uninstantiable
  11. uninstantiatable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uninstalling (page history and authors); uninstall (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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