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bubble-wrapping

bubble-wrapping is the present participle of bubble-wrap.

Meaning of bubble-wrap

Verb

bubble-wrap (third-person singular simple present bubble-wraps, present participle bubble-wrapping, simple past and past participle bubble-wrapped)

  1. (transitive) To cover in bubble wrap.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To excessively protect or shelter someone or something.

Questions about bubble-wrapping

What is bubble-wrapping the present participle of?
Bubble-wrapping is the present participle of bubble-wrap.

Words near bubble-wrapping in the dictionary

  1. bubble-pink
  2. bubble-up
  3. bubble-ups
  4. bubble-wrap
  5. bubble-wrapped
  6. bubble-wrapping
  7. bubble-wraps
  8. bubbleable
  9. bubbled
  10. bubbled in
  11. bubbled over

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bubble-wrapping (page history and authors); bubble-wrap (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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