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cordoning

cordoning is the present participle and gerund of cordon.

Meaning of cordon

Verb

cordon (third-person singular simple present cordons, present participle cordoning, simple past and past participle cordoned)

  1. (transitive) Synonym of cordon off.
    • Strong detachments of infantry instead of gendarmes cordoned the streets leading to the Lycée.1899, William Harding, Dreyfus: the Prisoner of Devil's Island, page 121
    Synonyms:
    cordon off

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Phrases with cordoning

Questions about cordoning

What is cordoning the present participle and gerund of?
Cordoning is the present participle and gerund of cordon.

Words near cordoning in the dictionary

  1. cordon-bleus
  2. cordonbleu
  3. cordonbleus
  4. cordoned
  5. cordoned off
  6. cordoning
  7. cordoning off
  8. cordonnet
  9. cordonnets
  10. cordons
  11. cordons bleus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cordoning (page history and authors); cordon (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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