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unselecting

unselecting is the present participle and gerund of unselect.

Meaning of unselect

Verb

unselect (third-person singular simple present unselects, present participle unselecting, simple past and past participle unselected)

  1. (transitive) To cancel a previous selection, especially by removing a mark from a tick box.
  2. (transitive) To reverse the previous selection of.

Questions about unselecting

What is unselecting the present participle and gerund of?
Unselecting is the present participle and gerund of unselect.

Words near unselecting in the dictionary

  1. unseldom
  2. unselect
  3. unselectability
  4. unselectable
  5. unselected
  6. unselecting
  7. unselection
  8. unselections
  9. unselective
  10. unselectively
  11. unselectiveness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unselecting (page history and authors); unselect (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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