Standard Lemma guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
An English verb's inflected form that ends in ing, including uses often analyzed as gerunds and present participles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: gerund-participle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wordform, form
History
From -ing + form.
Across languages
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
