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documenting

documenting is the present participle and gerund of document.

Meaning of document

Verb

document (third-person singular simple present documents, present participle documenting, simple past and past participle documented)

  1. (transitive) To record in documents.
    • He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.
  2. (transitive) To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.
    • A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

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Questions about documenting

What is documenting the present participle and gerund of?
Documenting is the present participle and gerund of document.

Words near documenting in the dictionary

  1. documentative
  2. documented
  3. documentedly
  4. documenter
  5. documenters
  6. documenting
  7. documentize
  8. documentized
  9. documentizes
  10. documentizing
  11. documentlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: documenting (page history and authors); document (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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