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dittoing

dittoing is the present participle and gerund of ditto.

Meaning of ditto

Verb

ditto (third-person singular simple present dittos, present participle dittoing, simple past and past participle dittoed)

  1. (transitive) To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.
    • The Communists believed that Prakasam, the Prime Minister, never tried to check the bureaucracy but dittoed every action of the corrupt officials and police.1989, K. K. N. Kurup, Agrarian struggles in Kerala
    Synonyms:
    ape, echo
  2. (US, ambitransitive) To make a copy using a ditto machine.
    • But they were all purple, Dittoed—worn, torn, stained with coffee.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 3, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 55

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Questions about dittoing

What is dittoing the present participle and gerund of?
Dittoing is the present participle and gerund of ditto.

Words near dittoing in the dictionary

  1. dittographies
  2. dittographs
  3. dittography
  4. dittohead
  5. dittoheads
  6. dittoing
  7. dittoism
  8. dittoisms
  9. dittologies
  10. dittology
  11. ditton

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