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backsplashing

backsplashing is the present participle and gerund of backsplash.

Meaning of backsplash

Verb

backsplash (third-person singular simple present backsplashes, present participle backsplashing, simple past and past participle backsplashed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To splash backward.
    • He succeeded in cutting the pad of his right palm quite badly on the blade of a paring knife before seizing two of the C-cells, but he felt this no more than he felt the burns he had sustained when he had been backsplashed.1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger

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Questions about backsplashing

What is backsplashing the present participle and gerund of?
Backsplashing is the present participle and gerund of backsplash.

Words near backsplashing in the dictionary

  1. backspinning
  2. backspins
  3. backsplash
  4. backsplashed
  5. backsplashes
  6. backsplashing
  7. backsplat
  8. backsplats
  9. backsplatter
  10. backsplice
  11. backspliced

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