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bassing

bassing is the present participle and gerund of bass.

Meaning of bass

Verb

bass (third-person singular simple present basses, present participle bassing, simple past and past participle bassed)

  1. (transitive) To sound in a deep tone.
    • […] and the Thunder / (That deepe and dreadfull Organ-Pipe) pronounc'd / The name of Proſper : it did baſe my Treſpaſſe1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...

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Questions about bassing

What is bassing the present participle and gerund of?
Bassing is the present participle and gerund of bass.

Words near bassing in the dictionary

  1. Bassin
  2. bassinet
  3. bassinets
  4. bassinette
  5. bassinettes
  6. bassing
  7. Bassingthorpe
  8. Bassins
  9. bassist
  10. bassists
  11. basskaap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bassing (page history and authors); bass (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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