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crescenting

crescenting is the present participle and gerund of crescent.

Meaning of crescent

Verb

crescent (third-person singular simple present crescents, present participle crescenting, simple past and past participle crescented)

  1. (transitive) To form a crescent shape.
    • A dark wood crescents more than half the lawn1809, Anna Seward, “Letter VI. 195”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
  2. (transitive) To decorate with crescents.

See all 25 meanings of crescent

Questions about crescenting

What is crescenting the present participle and gerund of?
Crescenting is the present participle and gerund of crescent.

Words near crescenting in the dictionary

  1. crescentiaceous
  2. crescential
  3. crescentic
  4. crescentiform
  5. crescentin
  6. crescenting
  7. crescentins
  8. crescentlike
  9. crescentoid
  10. crescents
  11. crescentspot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crescenting (page history and authors); crescent (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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