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antiquing

antiquing is the present participle and gerund of antique.

Meaning of antique

Verb

antique (third-person singular simple present antiques, present participle antiquing, simple past and past participle antiqued)

  1. (intransitive) To search or shop for antiques.
    • Once our daughter-in-love, Janis, went antiquing with us because she and our firstborn, Matthew, were in the market for some bedroom furniture.1999, Ron McAdoo, Caryl McAdoo, Antiquing in North Texas, page 103
  2. (transitive) To make (an object) appear to be an antique in some way.
  3. (transitive) To emboss without gilding.

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Questions about antiquing

What is antiquing the present participle and gerund of?
Antiquing is the present participle and gerund of antique.

Words near antiquing in the dictionary

  1. antiquification
  2. antiquified
  3. antiquifies
  4. antiquify
  5. antiquifying
  6. antiquing
  7. antiquisation
  8. antiquise
  9. antiquised
  10. antiquises
  11. antiquising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antiquing (page history and authors); antique (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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