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contabulating

contabulating is the present participle and gerund of contabulate.

Meaning of contabulate

Verb

contabulate (third-person singular simple present contabulates, present participle contabulating, simple past and past participle contabulated)

  1. To lay floorboards.
    • For the floor, though it felt to Watt like stone, was in reality contabulated, all over.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

Questions about contabulating

What is contabulating the present participle and gerund of?
Contabulating is the present participle and gerund of contabulate.

Words near contabulating in the dictionary

  1. contabescence
  2. contabescent
  3. contabulate
  4. contabulated
  5. contabulates
  6. contabulating
  7. contabulation
  8. contact
  9. contact ball
  10. contact balls
  11. contact binaries

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