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concertinaing

concertinaing is the present participle and gerund of concertina.

Meaning of concertina

Verb

concertina (third-person singular simple present concertinas, present participle concertinaing, simple past and past participle concertinaed)

  1. To become compressed into a shape reminiscent of a concertina.
    • The car concertinaed into the wall.
  2. To be drawn closer and farther apart repeatedly, or up and down, as if situated on a working concertina's folds.
    • This resulted in some fragmentation of the line as the boats in some cases closed to just 50 metres as they concertinaed in and out of sight of each other.2007, David W Cameron, 25 April 1915: The Day the Anzac Legend Was Born, page 36

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Questions about concertinaing

What is concertinaing the present participle and gerund of?
Concertinaing is the present participle and gerund of concertina.

Words near concertinaing in the dictionary

  1. concerti
  2. concertina
  3. concertina wire
  4. concertina wires
  5. concertinaed
  6. concertinaing
  7. concertinas
  8. concerting
  9. concertings
  10. concertini
  11. concertinist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: concertinaing (page history and authors); concertina (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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