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untraining

untraining is the present participle and gerund of untrain.

Meaning of untrain

Verb

untrain (third-person singular simple present untrains, present participle untraining, simple past and past participle untrained)

  1. To reverse or undo one's training; to become less trained than before
    • The 11 girls […]are all trained dancers in real life who, for the purposes of "Billy Elliot," must untrain themselves for each performance and dance with two very left feet.2009 January 14, Patrick Healy, “Where Ballet Is a Boy Thing”, in New York Times

Words formed from untraining

Questions about untraining

What is untraining the present participle and gerund of?
Untraining is the present participle and gerund of untrain.

Words near untraining in the dictionary

  1. untrainability
  2. untrainable
  3. untrainableness
  4. untrained
  5. untrainedness
  6. untraining
  7. untrains
  8. untraitorous
  9. untrammed
  10. untrammel
  11. untrammeled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: untraining (page history and authors); untrain (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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