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DIYing

DIYing is the present participle and gerund of DIY.

Meaning of DIY

Verb

DIY (third-person singular simple present DIYs, present participle DIYing or DIY-ing, simple past and past participle DIYed)

  1. To perform oneself a task usually relegated to an expert.
    • 2007 [publication date], Maggie Bullock, "Home Improvement", Elle, January 2008 ed., page 108,
      Huber was a physicist. Even top Estée Lauder chemists who took over for Huber in 1995 found that... any attempt to cheat on his original formula produced disappointing results, which demands the question...

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Forms of DIYing

alternative formDIY-ing

Questions about DIYing

What is DIYing the present participle and gerund of?
DIYing is the present participle and gerund of DIY.

Words near DIYing in the dictionary

  1. diyat
  2. DIYed
  3. diyeh
  4. DIYer
  5. DIYers
  6. DIYing
  7. diyingehu
  8. diyinruan
  9. diyl
  10. diylidene
  11. diyne

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Adapted from Wiktionary: DIYing (page history and authors); DIY (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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