demystifying
present participle ofdemystify
demystify
verb[T]
uk/ˌdiːˈmɪs.tɪ.faɪ/us/ˌdiːˈmɪs.tə.faɪ/to make somethingeasiertounderstand:
What I need is abookthat will demystify theworkingsof acarenginefor me.
Defining & explaining
- account (tosomeone) forsomething
- accountability
- adumbration
- annotation
- annotator
- crystallize
- define
- explain
- explicable
- explicate
- expound
- indescribable
- lay
- miswrite
- nail
- nailsomeonedown
- non-defining
- non-descriptive
- non-explanatory
- rough
Examplesofdemystifying
demystifying
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Demystifyingborderline personality: critique of the concept and unorthodox reflections on its natural kinship with the bipolar spectrum.
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This in itself is a useful contribution todemystifyingcreativity in design.
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Demystifyinglegends is also his purpose, in that he wants to reconstruct the history of what he repeatedly calls the 'real economy' by his 'statistical account'.
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The leaflet isdemystifyingand it will help people through the mechanisms for doing that.
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Simplifying the court system and introducing certainty about costs and procedures will go a long way todemystifyingthe process and opening up the legal system to many more people.
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Haacke has been outspoken throughout his career aboutdemystifyingthe relationship between museums and businesses and their individual practices.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The book was praised fordemystifyingthe process of creativity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They centered on advocating for the education of poor and disabled students, and critiquing anddemystifyingthe stigmatization of students perfectly capable of learning.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Below is a summary of the events and studies that grew to be landmark discoveries in the process ofdemystifyingthis subject.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When modern critics think they aredemystifyingliterature, they are in fact being demystified by it.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Bransford believes his films are often fashioned into an ongoing dialectic with one film reflecting on and partiallydemystifyingan earlier film.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Demystifyingthe beginnings of memory.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Tzara often appealed to revolutionary and ironic images, portraying provincial and middle class environments as places of artificiality and decay,demystifyingpastoral themes and evidencing a will to break free.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.His theater is always critical anddemystifyingand current on any proposed formal innovation: all procedures used freely dramatic serving a challenging critical work that breaks with conventions and values.
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