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bounding ahead

bounding ahead is the present participle and gerund of bound ahead.

Meaning of bound ahead

Verb

bound ahead (third-person singular simple present bounds ahead, present participle bounding ahead, simple past and past participle bounded ahead)

  1. (intransitive) To gather momentum; to increase quickly; to increase concerningly quickly.
    • The stock price has been bounding ahead all year.

Questions about bounding ahead

What is bounding ahead the present participle and gerund of?
Bounding ahead is the present participle and gerund of bound ahead.

Words near bounding ahead in the dictionary

  1. bounderism
  2. bounders
  3. boundest
  4. boundeth
  5. bounding
  6. bounding ahead
  7. bounding mine
  8. bounding mines
  9. boundingly
  10. boundings
  11. boundless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bounding ahead (page history and authors); bound ahead (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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