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disciplining

disciplining is the present participle and gerund of discipline.

Meaning of discipline

Verb

discipline (third-person singular simple present disciplines, present participle disciplining, simple past and past participle disciplined)

  1. (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
  2. (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
  3. (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
  4. (transitive) To impose order on someone.

See all 14 meanings of discipline

Noun

disciplining (countable and uncountable, plural disciplinings)

  1. The use of punishment to compel behavior.

Forms of disciplining

pluraldisciplinings

Questions about disciplining

What does disciplining mean?
Disciplining means the use of punishment to compel behavior.
What is disciplining the present participle and gerund of?
Disciplining is the present participle and gerund of discipline.
What part of speech is disciplining?
Disciplining is a noun.
What is the plural of disciplining?
The plural of disciplining is disciplinings.

Words near disciplining in the dictionary

  1. discipliners
  2. disciplines
  3. disciplinest
  4. disciplineth
  5. discipling
  6. disciplining
  7. disciplinings
  8. disciplinism
  9. disciplinist
  10. disciplinists
  11. discipular

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disciplining (page history and authors); discipline (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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