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belling out

belling out is the present participle and gerund of bell out.

Meaning of bell out

Verb

bell out (third-person singular simple present bells out, present participle belling out, simple past and past participle belled out)

  1. (idiomatic) To open out into a bell shape.
    • Her dress belled out at the bottom.

Questions about belling out

What is belling out the present participle and gerund of?
Belling out is the present participle and gerund of bell out.

Words near belling out in the dictionary

  1. Bellimbopinni
  2. Bellin
  3. Bellina
  4. Bellinas
  5. belling
  6. belling out
  7. belling the cat
  8. belling up
  9. Bellingen
  10. Bellinger
  11. bellingerite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: belling out (page history and authors); bell out (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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