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caverning

caverning is the present participle and gerund of cavern.

Meaning of cavern

Verb

cavern (third-person singular simple present caverns, present participle caverning, simple past and past participle caverned)

  1. (transitive) To form a cavern or deep depression in.
    • catacombs caverning the hillsides
    Synonyms:
    hollow, cave
  2. (transitive) To put into a cavern.

See all 5 meanings of cavern

Questions about caverning

What is caverning the present participle and gerund of?
Caverning is the present participle and gerund of cavern.

Words near caverning in the dictionary

  1. cavernful
  2. cavernfuls
  3. cavernicole
  4. cavernicoles
  5. cavernicolous
  6. caverning
  7. cavernitis
  8. cavernlike
  9. cavernolide
  10. cavernoma
  11. cavernomas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caverning (page history and authors); cavern (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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