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cancerating

cancerating is the present participle and gerund of cancerate.

Meaning of cancerate

Verb

cancerate (third-person singular simple present cancerates, present participle cancerating, simple past and past participle cancerated)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To grow into a cancer; to become cancerous.

Questions about cancerating

What is cancerating the present participle and gerund of?
Cancerating is the present participle and gerund of cancerate.

Words near cancerating in the dictionary

  1. cancer-cell
  2. cancer-cells
  3. cancerate
  4. cancerated
  5. cancerates
  6. cancerating
  7. canceration
  8. cancerations
  9. cancercell
  10. cancercells
  11. cancered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cancerating (page history and authors); cancerate (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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