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blurbing

blurbing is the present participle and gerund of blurb.

Meaning of blurb

Verb

blurb (third-person singular simple present blurbs, present participle blurbing, simple past and past participle blurbed)

  1. (transitive) To write or quote in a blurb.
    • When Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald blogged about having seen and loved “The Departed” in Toronto in a supposedly private screening last fall, Warner Brothers “scolded me very strongly,” he said, “but they still blurbed a line from my blog in their opening ad.”2007 July 4, David M. Halbfinger, “Appearing Way Before the Film: The Review”, in New York Times
  2. (transitive) To supply with a blurb.
    • The unseemly business of book blurbing has been source of both humor and concern in the pages of The New Yorker.2012 April 17, Jon Michaud, “Blurb This!”, in The New Yorker

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Questions about blurbing

What is blurbing the present participle and gerund of?
Blurbing is the present participle and gerund of blurb.

Words near blurbing in the dictionary

  1. blurbee
  2. blurbees
  3. blurber
  4. blurbers
  5. blurbification
  6. blurbing
  7. blurbist
  8. blurbists
  9. blurbs
  10. blurker
  11. blurkers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blurbing (page history and authors); blurb (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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