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chocolating

chocolating is the present participle and gerund of chocolate.

Meaning of chocolate

Verb

chocolate (third-person singular simple present chocolates, present participle chocolating, simple past and past participle chocolated)

  1. (rare, transitive) To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.
  2. (rare) To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.
    • Other formulations have been adopted to supply these growth factors; these include heating or "chocolating" the blood agar to release NAD directly from the erythrocytes in the agar medium.1992 August, R. Rennie, “Laboratory and Clinical Evaluations of Media for the Primary Isolation of Haemophilus Species”, in Journal of Clinical Microbiology, volume 30, number 8, page 1917

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Phrases with chocolating

Questions about chocolating

What is chocolating the present participle and gerund of?
Chocolating is the present participle and gerund of chocolate.

Words near chocolating in the dictionary

  1. chocolatiers
  2. chocolatiest
  3. chocolatine
  4. chocolatines
  5. chocolatiness
  6. chocolating
  7. chocolatini
  8. chocolatinis
  9. chocolatish
  10. chocolatize
  11. chocolatized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chocolating (page history and authors); chocolate (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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