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backlashing

backlashing is the present participle and gerund of backlash.

Meaning of backlash

Verb

backlash (third-person singular simple present backlashes, present participle backlashing, simple past and past participle backlashed)

  1. To perform a backlash, to lash back in reaction to some cause.
    • Thrutch factory was a queer old concern. It had been built piecemeal-here a bit and there a bit. There were a new end and an old end, the spinning-rooms in the one being light and lofty, in the other low. and gloomy. Looms were shoved in everywhere. There were a "long shop" with three hundred, a...1894 William Westall. Tinkler. Ludgate Illustrated Magazine. Vol VIII

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Questions about backlashing

What is backlashing the present participle and gerund of?
Backlashing is the present participle and gerund of backlash.

Words near backlashing in the dictionary

  1. backlash
  2. backlashed
  3. backlasher
  4. backlashers
  5. backlashes
  6. backlashing
  7. backlayering
  8. backlead
  9. backleads
  10. backless
  11. backlessness

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