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bayonetting

bayonetting is the present participle and gerund of bayonet.

Noun

bayonetting (plural bayonettings)

  1. A stabbing with a bayonet.
  2. Overlap of fracture fragments in a longbone fracture resulting in shortening of the extremity.

Meaning of bayonet

Verb

bayonet (third-person singular simple present bayonets, present participle bayoneting or bayonetting, simple past and past participle bayoneted or bayonetted)

  1. (transitive) To stab with a bayonet.
  2. (transitive) To compel or drive by the bayonet.
    • to bayonet us into a submission1774 April 19, Edmund Burke, Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. on American Taxation, April 19, 1774, 2nd edition, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], published 1775, →OCLC

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Forms of bayonetting

Verb
alternative formbayoneting
Noun
pluralbayonettings

Questions about bayonetting

What does bayonetting mean?
Bayonetting means a stabbing with a bayonet.
What is bayonetting the present participle and gerund of?
Bayonetting is the present participle and gerund of bayonet.
What part of speech is bayonetting?
Bayonetting is a noun.
What is the plural of bayonetting?
The plural of bayonetting is bayonettings.

Words near bayonetting in the dictionary

  1. bayoneting
  2. bayonetings
  3. bayonetlike
  4. bayonets
  5. bayonetted
  6. bayonetting
  7. bayonettings
  8. bayong
  9. bayongs
  10. Bayonne
  11. Bayonne ham

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bayonetting (page history and authors); bayonet (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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