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crowbarring

crowbarring is the present participle and gerund of crowbar.

Meaning of crowbar

Verb

crowbar (third-person singular simple present crowbars, present participle crowbarring, simple past and past participle crowbarred)

  1. (transitive) To force to move, usually with a crowbar; to prise.
    • He crowbarred the door open.
    Synonyms:
    crow, pry, prise / prize

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Questions about crowbarring

What is crowbarring the present participle and gerund of?
Crowbarring is the present participle and gerund of crowbar.

Words near crowbarring in the dictionary

  1. crowbait
  2. crowbaits
  3. crowbar
  4. crowbar hotel
  5. crowbarred
  6. crowbarring
  7. crowbars
  8. crowberries
  9. crowberry
  10. crowbill
  11. crowbills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crowbarring (page history and authors); crowbar (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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