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curetting

curetting is the present participle and gerund of curette.

Meaning of curette

Verb

curette (third-person singular simple present curettes, present participle curetting, simple past and past participle curetted)

  1. (transitive) To scrape with a curette.

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Noun

curetting (plural curettings)

  1. The act of scraping with a curette.

Forms of curetting

pluralcurettings

Questions about curetting

What does curetting mean?
Curetting means the act of scraping with a curette.
What is curetting the present participle and gerund of?
Curetting is the present participle and gerund of curette.
What part of speech is curetting?
Curetting is a noun.
What is the plural of curetting?
The plural of curetting is curettings.

Words near curetting in the dictionary

  1. curettement
  2. curettements
  3. curetter
  4. curetters
  5. curettes
  6. curetting
  7. curettings
  8. CUREUS
  9. curf
  10. curfew
  11. curfewed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curetting (page history and authors); curette (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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