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caponing

caponing is the present participle and gerund of capon.

Meaning of capon

Verb

capon (third-person singular simple present capons, present participle caponing, simple past and past participle caponed)

  1. (transitive) To castrate; to make a capon of.

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Questions about caponing

What is caponing the present participle and gerund of?
Caponing is the present participle and gerund of capon.

Words near caponing in the dictionary

  1. caponiers
  2. Caponigro
  3. Caponigros
  4. caponiid
  5. caponiids
  6. caponing
  7. caponioid
  8. caponioids
  9. caponise
  10. caponised
  11. caponises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caponing (page history and authors); capon (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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