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adulating

adulating is the present participle and gerund of adulate.

Meaning of adulate

Verb

adulate (third-person singular simple present adulates, present participle adulating, simple past and past participle adulated)

  1. (transitive) To flatter effusively.

Questions about adulating

What is adulating the present participle and gerund of?
Adulating is the present participle and gerund of adulate.

Words near adulating in the dictionary

  1. adularizes
  2. adularizing
  3. adulate
  4. adulated
  5. adulates
  6. adulating
  7. adulation
  8. adulations
  9. adulator
  10. adulatorily
  11. adulatorious

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