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detumescing

detumescing is the present participle and gerund of detumesce.

Meaning of detumesce

Verb

detumesce (third-person singular simple present detumesces, present participle detumescing, simple past and past participle detumesced)

  1. (intransitive) To leave the erect, sexually aroused state.
  2. (intransitive) To lose one's sexual arousal: to experience the detumescence of one's sexual organs.
  3. (transitive) To cause (a person) to detumesce: to induce detumescence.

Questions about detumescing

What is detumescing the present participle and gerund of?
Detumescing is the present participle and gerund of detumesce.

Words near detumescing in the dictionary

  1. detumesced
  2. detumescence
  3. detumescences
  4. detumescent
  5. detumesces
  6. detumescing
  7. detumomab
  8. detunable
  9. detune
  10. detuned
  11. detuner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detumescing (page history and authors); detumesce (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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