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-escing

-escing is the present participle and gerund of -esce.

Meaning of -esce

Suffix

-esce (verb-forming suffix, third-person singular simple present -esces, present participle -escing, simple past and past participle -esced)

  1. Used to form verbs from nouns, following the pattern of verbs derived from Latin verbs ending in -esco

Questions about -escing

What is -escing the present participle and gerund of?
-escing is the present participle and gerund of -esce.

Words near -escing in the dictionary

  1. -esce
  2. -esced
  3. -escence
  4. -escent
  5. -esces
  6. -escing
  7. -ese
  8. -esis
  9. -esque
  10. -ess
  11. -esse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -escing (page history and authors); -esce (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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