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airlifting

airlifting is the present participle and gerund of airlift.

Meaning of airlift

Verb

airlift (third-person singular simple present airlifts, present participle airlifting, simple past and past participle airlifted)

  1. (transitive) To transport (supplies, troops, etc) in an airlift.
    • The mountaineer who fell down a crevasse had to be airlifted out.

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Questions about airlifting

What is airlifting the present participle and gerund of?
Airlifting is the present participle and gerund of airlift.

Words near airlifting in the dictionary

  1. airliest
  2. airlift
  3. airlifted
  4. airlifter
  5. airlifters
  6. airlifting
  7. airlifts
  8. airlike
  9. airline
  10. airline alliance
  11. airline alliances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: airlifting (page history and authors); airlift (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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