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beautificating

beautificating is the present participle and gerund of beautificate.

Meaning of beautificate

Verb

beautificate (third-person singular simple present beautificates, present participle beautificating, simple past and past participle beautificated)

  1. (nonstandard, transitive, chiefly non-native speakers' English) To beautify.
    • Actually, a navel pierce^([sic]) beautificates any feminine form, as I'm sure it does for you...1997 June 18, ROBERT W. MONTCALM, “Naval^([sic]) piercing for men.”, in rec.arts.bodyart (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026

Questions about beautificating

What is beautificating the present participle and gerund of?
Beautificating is the present participle and gerund of beautificate.

Words near beautificating in the dictionary

  1. beautiest
  2. beautifiable
  3. beautificate
  4. beautificated
  5. beautificates
  6. beautificating
  7. beautification
  8. beautifications
  9. beautified
  10. beautifier
  11. beautifiers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beautificating (page history and authors); beautificate (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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