Word.ws English Dictionary

DNAing

DNAing is the present participle and gerund of DNA.

Meaning of DNA

Verb (1)

DNA (third-person singular simple present DNAs, present participle DNAing, simple past and past participle DNAed)

  1. (transitive) To examine a sample of (someone's) deoxyribonucleic acid.
    • The only way we're gonna know is if we DNA him against the spunk in Karen.2002, Matthew Stokoe, High Life, New York, N.Y.: Akashic Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 261

Verb (2)

DNA (third-person singular simple present DNAs, present participle DNAing, simple past and past participle DNAed)

  1. (US) To place (someone) under a DNA (do not arm) order because of mental illness.
    • She had her weapons back. She wasn't DNA'd anymore. But she didn't use a weapon. That's not how she did it.2018, Jeanne Marie Laskas, To Obama, with Love, Joy, Hate and Despair, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 239

See all 12 meanings of dna

Questions about DNAing

What is DNAing the present participle and gerund of?
DNAing is the present participle and gerund of DNA.

Words near DNAing in the dictionary

  1. DNA viruses
  2. DNAaemia
  3. DNACPR
  4. DNAed
  5. DNAemia
  6. DNAing
  7. DNAR
  8. dnas
  9. DNase
  10. DNases
  11. DNAzyme

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: DNAing (page history and authors); DNA (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “DNAing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dnaing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.