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batoning

batoning is the present participle and gerund of baton.

Meaning of baton

Verb

baton (third-person singular simple present batons, present participle batoning, simple past and past participle batoned)

  1. (figuratively, transitive) To strike with a baton.
    • She passed the baton to her successor after retiring.

See all 11 meanings of baton

Noun

batoning (plural batonings)

  1. A beating with a baton.

Forms of batoning

pluralbatonings

Questions about batoning

What does batoning mean?
Batoning means a beating with a baton.
What is batoning the present participle and gerund of?
Batoning is the present participle and gerund of baton.
What part of speech is batoning?
Batoning is a noun.
What is the plural of batoning?
The plural of batoning is batonings.

Words near batoning in the dictionary

  1. batoned
  2. batoneer
  3. batoneers
  4. Batonga
  5. batonic
  6. batoning
  7. batonings
  8. batonist
  9. batonistic
  10. batonists
  11. batonless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: batoning (page history and authors); baton (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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