Word.ws English Dictionary

de-essing

de-essing is the present participle and gerund of de-ess.

Meaning of de-ess

Verb

de-ess (third-person singular simple present de-esses, present participle de-essing, simple past and past participle de-essed)

  1. (transitive) to reduce the loudness of sibilants in an audio recording

Questions about de-essing

What is de-essing the present participle and gerund of?
De-essing is the present participle and gerund of de-ess.

Words near de-essing in the dictionary

  1. de-ess
  2. de-essed
  3. de-esser
  4. de-essers
  5. de-esses
  6. de-essing
  7. de-ethnicization
  8. de-ethnization
  9. de-excitation
  10. de-excitations
  11. de-extinct

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: de-essing (page history and authors); de-ess (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “de-essing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/de-essing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.