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colouring in

colouring in is the present participle and gerund of colour in.

Meaning of colour in

Verb

colour in (third-person singular simple present colours in, present participle colouring in, simple past and past participle coloured in)

  1. To colourise; to add colours to a black-and-white drawing, using coloured drawing equipment.

Questions about colouring in

What is colouring in the present participle and gerund of?
Colouring in is the present participle and gerund of colour in.

Words near colouring in in the dictionary

  1. colourimetries
  2. colourimetry
  3. colouring
  4. colouring book
  5. colouring books
  6. colouring in
  7. colouring inside the lines
  8. colouring outside the lines
  9. colouring pencil
  10. colouring pencils
  11. colouring up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colouring in (page history and authors); colour in (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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