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curtaining off

curtaining off is the present participle and gerund of curtain off.

Meaning of curtain off

Verb

curtain off (third-person singular simple present curtains off, present participle curtaining off, simple past and past participle curtained off)

  1. To separate, isolate or block by means of a curtain or other barrier.
    • The encircling, mile-high mountains of the Coeur d'Alene mining area, rich in lead, zinc and silver, curtain off the sunlight except for a few midday hours.1960 November 14, “Strike Town”, in Time
  2. (figuratively) To isolate.
    • I am talking about a way of regarding our world as amenable to investigation and interrogation without magic keys, special jargons and instruments, curtained-off practices.1993, Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, New York: Vintage, published 1994, Chapter Four, Section II, p. 312

Questions about curtaining off

What is curtaining off the present participle and gerund of?
Curtaining off is the present participle and gerund of curtain off.

Words near curtaining off in the dictionary

  1. curtained
  2. curtained off
  3. curtainfall
  4. curtainfic
  5. curtaining
  6. curtaining off
  7. curtainings
  8. curtainless
  9. curtainlessness
  10. curtainlike
  11. curtains

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curtaining off (page history and authors); curtain off (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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