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contrailing

contrailing is the present participle and gerund of contrail.

Meaning of contrail

Verb

contrail (third-person singular simple present contrails, present participle contrailing, simple past and past participle contrailed)

  1. (intransitive) To produce an artificial cloud of this kind.

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Questions about contrailing

What is contrailing the present participle and gerund of?
Contrailing is the present participle and gerund of contrail.

Words near contrailing in the dictionary

  1. contrahent
  2. contrahents
  3. contrahierba
  4. contrail
  5. contrailed
  6. contrailing
  7. contrails
  8. contraindicant
  9. contraindicants
  10. contraindicate
  11. contraindicated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contrailing (page history and authors); contrail (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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