deauthorize

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UK/diːˈɔːθəɹaɪz/

verb

To revoke permission, sanction or consent from.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

verbdeauthorize (third-person singular simple present deauthorizes, present participle deauthorizing, simple past and past participle deauthorized)

present singular third person deauthorizes · participle present deauthorizing · participle past deauthorized · past deauthorized · alternative deauthorise · alternative de-authorise

  1. transitiveTo revoke permission, sanction or consent from.

    The deauthorizing only affects copies of SketchUp that are signed in, it doesn’t affect who is assigned the seat.

    2024 April 23, Colin Holgate, SketchUp Community
    2 more examples

    If you plan to get rid the of Dell desktop (or not use it for playing iTunes content) you should deauthorize it from the iTunes Store after you’ve moved the library — but before you shut it down that one last time.

    2011 July 20, J.D. Biersdorfer, “Q&A: Moving the Music to a New Machine”, in The New York Times

    Clinicians in the United States relied strongly on the use of two monoclonal antibody (mAbs) treatments for COVID-19, even after they were deauthorized by the Food and Drug Administration, according to a new study.

    2022 January 9, Alicia Lasek, “Use of deauthorized COVID antibody treatments widespread in early 2022: study”, in McKnight's Long-Term Care News

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Englishde-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ewg-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₂owg-éye-ti
  9. Proto-Italic*augejō
  10. Proto-Italic*augeō
  11. Latinaugeō
  12. Latinauctor
  13. Latinauctōrizō
  14. Old Frenchauctorisier
  15. Middle Englishauctorisen
  16. Englishauthorize
  17. Englishdeauthorize

From de- + authorize.

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Translations

Catalan desautoritzar
  • desautoritzarrevoke permission
Portuguese desautorizar
  • desautorizarrevoke permission
Spanish desautorizar
  • desautorizarrevoke permission
Cite this entry
APA

deauthorize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deauthorize

MLA

“deauthorize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deauthorize. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “deauthorize,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deauthorize.

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