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decking out

decking out is the present participle and gerund of deck out.

Meaning of deck out

Verb

deck out (third-person singular simple present decks out, present participle decking out, simple past and past participle decked out)

  1. (transitive) To decorate (something).
    • They decked the bar out with World Cup paraphernalia for June and July.
    Synonyms:
    adorn, bedeck
  2. (transitive) To dress (someone) in fancy clothes.
    • He was decked out as a successful pimp.
    Synonyms:
    dress up
  3. (intransitive) To forfeit by running out of cards in a deck.
  4. (intransitive) To fall off a mountain or climbing wall and hit the ground.

Questions about decking out

What is decking out the present participle and gerund of?
Decking out is the present participle and gerund of deck out.

Words near decking out in the dictionary

  1. deckhouse
  2. deckhouses
  3. deckie
  4. deckies
  5. decking
  6. decking out
  7. decking over
  8. decking up
  9. deckings
  10. deckle
  11. deckle edge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: decking out (page history and authors); deck out (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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