deselect
Americanverb (used with object)
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deselects,
present (3rd person singular)
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deselected,
past participle, past
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deselecting
present participle
verb
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politics (of a constituency organization) to refuse to select (an existing MP) for re-election
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to discharge (a trainee) during the period of training
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computing to cancel (a highlighted selection of data) on a computer screen
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computing to remove (the check mark) at an option in a dialogue box
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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deselectsimple
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deselectssimple
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have deselectedperfect
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has deselectedperfect
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am deselectingprogressive
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are deselectingprogressive
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is deselectingprogressive
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have been deselectingperfect progressive
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has been deselectingperfect progressive
Past
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deselectedsimple
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had deselectedperfect
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was deselectingprogressive
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were deselectingprogressive
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had been deselectingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of deselect
Example Sentences
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Frontier should have showed DiDonato the $428 fare first, along with an option to deselect checked luggage and an assigned seat if she wanted to lower her fare.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
The Zoom account owner will need to manually deselect Zoom's on-by-default data sharing option after solving a pop-up maze of sub-menus.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2023
If you’re trying to get all your files out of Google’s clutches, go to the company’s Takeout site and deselect everything except “Drive.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2021
He will also propose to make it more difficult for local parties to oust - or deselect - MPs.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2021
Be sure to deselect or clear all equations before graphing.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 19, 2013
Fun fact — if you accidentally click on the single color or storage option, it deselects them, and the site throws up an error if you try to continue.
From The Verge ● Jun. 15, 2022
He is expected to be deselected when his Upper Bann constituency association meets in June to choose its candidate for the next Northern Ireland Assembly election.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
One poster, a guy from Cumbria with no formal profile in the media whatsoever, did investigative work that led to two Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates being deselected.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2020
There will also be dozens of seats in which special factors will apply, including deselected MPs from both main parties running as independents.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2019
The ousted, or, in technical terms, the deselected lawmakers are free to stand for Parliament as independent candidates in the next general election, but Soames said he would not.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2019
Some people have deselected whole groups of packages by mistake and not noticed the error until too late. dselect is a very powerful tool; don't misuse it.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by John Goerzen
"They have been organising meetings where there has been open discussion about deselecting Labour MPs," she says.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2015
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