The article examines the semantics and functioning of abstract procedural nouns with the prefix de- in modern media. The activation of this word - formation type was stimulated by two key terms used during the special military operation conducted in Ukraine - demilitarization and denazification. Contexts involving a number of common words and neoplasms with this prefix are investigated. It is shown that the prefix dein the composition of derived words constructs a description of the modern complex political situation, manifesting the meaning of the annulment of everything that formed the established basis of the former world.