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bouleversing

bouleversing is the present participle and gerund of bouleverse.

Meaning of bouleverse

Verb

bouleverse (third-person singular simple present bouleverses, present participle bouleversing, simple past and past participle bouleversed)

  1. (transitive) To change drastically; to overturn or turn upside down.
    • Had the comet which traversed them been of any respectable weight he would have made havoc among them and bouleversed their motions. But it was a case of locomotive and cow, and it was "very bad for the coo."1872, The Gentleman's Magazine (part 1, page 691)

Questions about bouleversing

What is bouleversing the present participle and gerund of?
Bouleversing is the present participle and gerund of bouleverse.

Words near bouleversing in the dictionary

  1. boulevards
  2. bouleverse
  3. bouleversed
  4. bouleversement
  5. bouleversements
  6. bouleversing
  7. boulework
  8. Bouley
  9. Bouleys
  10. Boulia
  11. boulimia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bouleversing (page history and authors); bouleverse (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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