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DMing

DMing is the abbreviation of Dungeon Mastering.

DMing is the present participle and gerund of DM.

Meaning of Dungeon Mastering

Noun

Dungeon Mastering (uncountable)

  1. Performing as a dungeon master, or running a tabletop role-playing game, especially Dungeons & Dragons.

Meaning of DM

Verb

DM (third-person singular simple present DMs, present participle DMing, simple past and past participle DMed or DM'd)

  1. (Internet, transitive) To communicate by direct message, usually on a social media website.
    • Rio [Ferdinand] DM’d me after the tournament. He’d said I was the weak link, and that Croatia should be targeting me.2021 August 2, Tyrone Mings, quotee, “Tyrone Mings Opens Up over Mental Health Struggles ahead of Euro 2020”, in Yahoo! Sports, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2021
  2. (roleplaying games) To dungeon master; to perform as a dungeon master; to run a tabletop role-playing game.
    Synonyms:
    GM

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Questions about DMing

What is DMing the abbreviation of?
DMing is the abbreviation of Dungeon Mastering.

Words near DMing in the dictionary

  1. dmg
  2. DMH
  3. DMHs
  4. DMI
  5. DMin
  6. DMing
  7. DMIPS
  8. DMIs
  9. dmisteinbergite
  10. Dmitri
  11. Dmitriev

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Adapted from Wiktionary: DMing (page history and authors); Dungeon Mastering (page history and authors); DM (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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