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backfitting

backfitting is the present participle and gerund of backfit.

Meaning of backfit

Verb

backfit (third-person singular simple present backfits, present participle backfitting, simple past and past participle backfitted)

  1. To retrofit.

Questions about backfitting

What is backfitting the present participle and gerund of?
Backfitting is the present participle and gerund of backfit.

Words near backfitting in the dictionary

  1. backfist
  2. backfists
  3. backfit
  4. backfits
  5. backfitted
  6. backfitting
  7. backflash
  8. backflashes
  9. backflip
  10. backflipped
  11. backflipping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backfitting (page history and authors); backfit (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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