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counterfeiting

counterfeiting is the present participle and gerund of counterfeit.

Meaning of counterfeit

Verb

counterfeit (third-person singular simple present counterfeits, present participle counterfeiting, simple past and past participle counterfeited)

  1. (transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
    • to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To produce a faithful copy of.
    • The title page of White's original album includes a descriptive title page that identifies the contents as “the pictures of sondry things collected and counterfeited according to the truth,"2008, Michael Gaudio, Engraving the savage: the New World and techniques of civilization, page xii
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To feign; to mimic.
    • to counterfeit the voice of another person
  4. (transitive, usually "be counterfeited") Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.

See all 11 meanings of counterfeit

Noun

counterfeiting (plural counterfeitings)

  1. The act of one who counterfeits.
    • Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill

Forms of counterfeiting

pluralcounterfeitings

Words formed from counterfeiting

Questions about counterfeiting

What does counterfeiting mean?
Counterfeiting means the act of one who counterfeits.
What is counterfeiting the present participle and gerund of?
Counterfeiting is the present participle and gerund of counterfeit.
What part of speech is counterfeiting?
Counterfeiting is a noun.
What is the plural of counterfeiting?
The plural of counterfeiting is counterfeitings.

Words near counterfeiting in the dictionary

  1. counterfeited
  2. counterfeiter
  3. counterfeiters
  4. counterfeitest
  5. counterfeiteth
  6. counterfeiting
  7. counterfeitingly
  8. counterfeitings
  9. counterfeitly
  10. counterfeitment
  11. counterfeitments

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