Word.ws English Dictionary

brecciating

brecciating is the present participle and gerund of brecciate.

Meaning of brecciate

Verb

brecciate (third-person singular simple present brecciates, present participle brecciating, simple past and past participle brecciated)

  1. (transitive) To turn (something) into breccia.
    • The impact event brecciated the regolith in the area of the crater.
  2. (intransitive) To become breccia.

Questions about brecciating

What is brecciating the present participle and gerund of?
Brecciating is the present participle and gerund of brecciate.

Words near brecciating in the dictionary

  1. breccial
  2. breccias
  3. brecciate
  4. brecciated
  5. brecciates
  6. brecciating
  7. brecciation
  8. brecciations
  9. breccio-conglomerate
  10. breccioconglomerate
  11. breccioid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: brecciating (page history and authors); brecciate (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “brecciating.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/brecciating. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.