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apologising

apologising is the present participle and gerund of apologise.

apologising is the alternative form of apologizing.

Meaning of apologizing

Noun

apologizing (plural apologizings)

  1. The act of making an apology.
    • There were appeals and apologizings and beseechings then, but they were on the other side and he did not respond; something was frozen away inside that never unthawed in the heat of their renewed association.2014, Allen Drury, Advise & Consent

Forms of apologising

pluralapologisings

Questions about apologising

What is apologising the present participle and gerund of?
Apologising is the present participle and gerund of apologise.

Words near apologising in the dictionary

  1. apologise
  2. apologised
  3. apologiser
  4. apologisers
  5. apologises
  6. apologising
  7. apologisings
  8. apologism
  9. apologisms
  10. apologist
  11. apologists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: apologising (page history and authors); apologizing (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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