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cloverleafing

cloverleafing is the present participle and gerund of cloverleaf.

Meaning of cloverleaf

Verb

cloverleaf (third-person singular simple present cloverleafs, present participle cloverleafing, simple past and past participle cloverleafed)

  1. (intransitive) To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one.
    • Hay told a military historian that Allen precipitated “the debacle” by “allowing his lead company to pursue the VC down the trail” instead of forming a perimeter and cloverleafing at the first sign of the enemy.2003, David Maraniss, They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967

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Questions about cloverleafing

What is cloverleafing the present participle and gerund of?
Cloverleafing is the present participle and gerund of cloverleaf.

Words near cloverleafing in the dictionary

  1. cloverleaf skull
  2. cloverleaf skulls
  3. cloverleaf tongue
  4. cloverleaf tongues
  5. cloverleafed
  6. cloverleafing
  7. cloverleafs
  8. cloverleaves
  9. cloverlike
  10. cloveroot
  11. cloveroots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cloverleafing (page history and authors); cloverleaf (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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