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cannonballing

cannonballing is the present participle and gerund of cannonball.

Meaning of cannonball

Verb

cannonball (third-person singular simple present cannonballs, present participle cannonballing, simple past and past participle cannonballed)

  1. (intransitive) To jump or dive into water, performing a cannonball landing.
    • He cannonballed into the pool, drenching us all.
  2. (intransitive) To career; to move rapidly.
    • The car cannonballed past.

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Questions about cannonballing

What is cannonballing the present participle and gerund of?
Cannonballing is the present participle and gerund of cannonball.

Words near cannonballing in the dictionary

  1. cannonball tree
  2. cannonball trees
  3. cannonballed
  4. cannonballer
  5. cannonballers
  6. cannonballing
  7. cannonballs
  8. Cannone
  9. cannoned
  10. cannoneer
  11. cannoneering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cannonballing (page history and authors); cannonball (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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