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band-aiding

band-aiding is the present participle and gerund of band-aid.

Meaning of band-aid

Verb

band-aid (third-person singular simple present band-aids, present participle band-aiding, simple past and past participle band-aided)

  1. (transitive) To apply an adhesive bandage.
    • As a school nurse, Pat was used to band-aiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.
  2. (broadly, figuratively, transitive) To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.
    • Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.

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Questions about band-aiding

What is band-aiding the present participle and gerund of?
Band-aiding is the present participle and gerund of band-aid.

Words near band-aiding in the dictionary

  1. band-aid buggies
  2. band-aid buggy
  3. band-aid solution
  4. band-aid solutions
  5. band-aided
  6. band-aiding
  7. band-aids
  8. band-pass
  9. band-saw
  10. band-saws
  11. band-stop

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