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clipping someone's wings

clipping someone's wings is the present participle and gerund of clip someone's wings.

Meaning of clip someone's wings

Verb

clip someone's wings (third-person singular simple present clips someone's wings, present participle clipping someone's wings, simple past and past participle clipped someone's wings)

  1. (idiomatic) To restrict someone's freedom.

Questions about clipping someone's wings

What is clipping someone's wings the present participle and gerund of?
Clipping someone's wings is the present participle and gerund of clip someone's wings.

Words near clipping someone's wings in the dictionary

  1. clippety-cloppety
  2. clippie
  3. clippies
  4. clipping
  5. clipping it
  6. clipping someone's wings
  7. clipping the church
  8. clipping the wings of
  9. Clippinger
  10. Clippingers
  11. clippingly

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