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bolting down

bolting down is the present participle and gerund of bolt down.

Meaning of bolt down

Verb

bolt down (third-person singular simple present bolts down, present participle bolting down, simple past and past participle bolted down)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bolt, down.
  2. (transitive) To eat a large amount of food quickly.

Questions about bolting down

What is bolting down the present participle and gerund of?
Bolting down is the present participle and gerund of bolt down.

Words near bolting down in the dictionary

  1. boltholes
  2. bolti
  3. bolties
  4. bolting
  5. bolting cloth
  6. bolting down
  7. bolting in
  8. bolting to the bran
  9. boltings
  10. Boltinhouse
  11. boltis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bolting down (page history and authors); bolt down (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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