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appareling

appareling is the present participle and gerund of apparel.

Meaning of apparel

Verb

apparel (third-person singular simple present apparels, present participle (US) appareling or (UK) apparelling, simple past and past participle (US) appareled or (UK) apparelled)

  1. (transitive) To dress or clothe; to attire.
    • They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.1568, Bishops' Bible, Luke vii. 25
  2. (transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
    • ships appareled to fight
    Synonyms:
    kit out
  3. (transitive) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental
    • trees appareled with flowers
    Synonyms:
    adorn

See all 7 meanings of apparel

Noun

appareling (plural apparelings)

  1. clothing

Forms of appareling

pluralapparelings

Questions about appareling

What does appareling mean?
Appareling means clothing.
What is appareling the present participle and gerund of?
Appareling is the present participle and gerund of apparel.
What part of speech is appareling?
Appareling is a noun.
What is the plural of appareling?
The plural of appareling is apparelings.

Words near appareling in the dictionary

  1. apparatusses
  2. apparatûs
  3. apparatūs
  4. apparel
  5. appareled
  6. appareling
  7. apparelings
  8. apparell
  9. apparelled
  10. apparelling
  11. apparellings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: appareling (page history and authors); apparel (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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