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carboning

carboning is the present participle and gerund of carbon.

carboning is the present participle and gerund of carbone.

Meaning of carbon

Verb

carbon (third-person singular simple present carbons, present participle carboning, simple past and past participle carboned)

  1. (Internet, transitive, uncommon) To send a carbon copy of an email message to.
    • When I send it, I’ll carbon Julia so she’s aware.
    Synonyms:
    cc, copy

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Meaning of carbone

Verb

carbone (third-person singular simple present carbones, present participle carboning, simple past and past participle carboned)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To broil.
    • We had a calf's head carboned.1661 January 10 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 1st, 1660–1661”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I...

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Questions about carboning

What is carboning the present participle and gerund of?
Carboning is the present participle and gerund of carbon.

Words near carboning in the dictionary

  1. carbonifies
  2. carbonify
  3. carbonigenous
  4. carbonimide
  5. carbonimidic
  6. carboning
  7. Carbonis
  8. carbonisation
  9. carbonisations
  10. carbonise
  11. carbonised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carboning (page history and authors); carbon (page history and authors); carbone (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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