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archipelagoing

archipelagoing is the present participle and gerund of archipelago.

Meaning of archipelago

Verb

archipelago (third-person singular simple present archipelagos, present participle archipelagoing, simple past and past participle archipelagoed)

  1. (rare, transitive) To scatter or strew (a place, or something) with things that collectively resemble a group of many islands.
    • As the seas level, as the seas / Swept into ripples by the breeze, / And archipelagoed by trees, / Majestic spreading oaks, that rise / Like island walls against the skies.1912, Samuel John Alexander, “The Regions which are Holy Land”, in The Inverted Torch, and Other Poems, San Francisco, Calif.: A. M. Robertson, →OCLC, page 183

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Questions about archipelagoing

What is archipelagoing the present participle and gerund of?
Archipelagoing is the present participle and gerund of archipelago.

Words near archipelagoing in the dictionary

  1. archipelago big-eyed treefrog
  2. archipelago big-eyed treefrogs
  3. Archipelago Sea
  4. archipelagoed
  5. archipelagoes
  6. archipelagoing
  7. archipelagos
  8. archipendulum
  9. archiphoneme
  10. archiphonemes
  11. archiphonemic

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