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404ing

404ing is the present participle and gerund of 404.

Meaning of 404

Verb

404 (third-person singular simple present 404s, present participle 404ing, simple past and past participle 404ed or 404'd)

  1. To return an error indicating that a web page could not be found.
    • Return 404s for all deleted pages. Some search engine marketers suggest redirecting old products to semantically related products instead of 404ing. This preserves link equity, whereas a 404 does not.2007, Cristian Darie, Jaimie Sirovich, Professional Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET: A Developer's Guide to SEO, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 113

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Questions about 404ing

What is 404ing the present participle and gerund of?
404ing is the present participle and gerund of 404.

Words near 404ing in the dictionary

  1. 404
  2. 404 page
  3. 404 pages
  4. 404'd
  5. 404ed
  6. 404ing
  7. 404s
  8. 40k
  9. 40s
  10. 40th
  11. 41%

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 404ing (page history and authors); 404 (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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