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caterpillaring

caterpillaring is the present participle and gerund of caterpillar.

Meaning of caterpillar

Verb

caterpillar (third-person singular simple present caterpillars, present participle caterpillaring, simple past and past participle caterpillared)

  1. (intransitive) To move along slowly, drawing one's body up, in the manner of a caterpillar.

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Questions about caterpillaring

What is caterpillaring the present participle and gerund of?
Caterpillaring is the present participle and gerund of caterpillar.

Words near caterpillaring in the dictionary

  1. caterpillar track
  2. caterpillar tracks
  3. caterpillar tree
  4. caterpillar trees
  5. caterpillared
  6. caterpillaring
  7. caterpillarization
  8. caterpillarize
  9. caterpillarized
  10. caterpillarizes
  11. caterpillarizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caterpillaring (page history and authors); caterpillar (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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