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contracepting

contracepting is the present participle and gerund of contracept.

Meaning of contracept

Verb

contracept (third-person singular simple present contracepts, present participle contracepting, simple past and past participle contracepted)

  1. (intransitive) To use contraception
    • Through the wisdom of our legislators, only the intelligent may contracept, while the stupid are commanded to reproduce their kind.1932, Will Durant, R. Long, R.R. Smith, “On the meaning of life”, in Inc., page 121
  2. (transitive) To administer contraception, especially to a population of wild animals

Questions about contracepting

What is contracepting the present participle and gerund of?
Contracepting is the present participle and gerund of contracept.

Words near contracepting in the dictionary

  1. contrabassos
  2. contrabiotic
  3. contrabureaucratic
  4. contracept
  5. contracepted
  6. contracepting
  7. contraception
  8. contraceptional
  9. contraceptionism
  10. contraceptionist
  11. contraceptionists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contracepting (page history and authors); contracept (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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