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backburnering

backburnering is the present participle and gerund of backburner.

Meaning of backburner

Verb

backburner (third-person singular simple present backburners, present participle backburnering, simple past and past participle backburnered)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To relegate to a lower priority.
    • "What I noticed was that my sadness and loneliness got backburnered," she told the BBC.2013, Lorna Stewart, BBC News, Love letters and kindness may improve mental health

Questions about backburnering

What is backburnering the present participle and gerund of?
Backburnering is the present participle and gerund of backburner.

Words near backburnering in the dictionary

  1. backbulges
  2. backburn
  3. backburned
  4. backburner
  5. backburnered
  6. backburnering
  7. backburners
  8. backburning
  9. backburns
  10. backburnt
  11. backcalculate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backburnering (page history and authors); backburner (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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