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amalgaming

amalgaming is the present participle and gerund of amalgam.

Meaning of amalgam

Verb

amalgam (third-person singular simple present amalgams, present participle amalgaming, simple past and past participle amalgamed)

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic) To amalgamate (something) with a thing.
    • gold t’amalgam with some six of mercury1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet...

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Questions about amalgaming

What is amalgaming the present participle and gerund of?
Amalgaming is the present participle and gerund of amalgam.

Words near amalgaming in the dictionary

  1. amalgamatizes
  2. amalgamatizing
  3. amalgamator
  4. amalgamators
  5. amalgamed
  6. amalgaming
  7. amalgamism
  8. amalgamist
  9. amalgamists
  10. amalgamization
  11. amalgamizations

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