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doorbelling

doorbelling is the present participle and gerund of doorbell.

Meaning of doorbell

Verb

doorbell (third-person singular simple present doorbells, present participle doorbelling, simple past and past participle doorbelled)

  1. (intransitive) To ring many doorbells in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit.
  2. (transitive) To ring many doorbells of (target people or an area) in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit.
    • We doorbelled the whole district in an effort to get out the vote.

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Questions about doorbelling

What is doorbelling the present participle and gerund of?
Doorbelling is the present participle and gerund of doorbell.

Words near doorbelling in the dictionary

  1. door-to-door
  2. Dooralong
  3. doorbell
  4. doorbell key
  5. doorbelled
  6. doorbelling
  7. doorbells
  8. doorboy
  9. doorboys
  10. doorbuster
  11. doorbusters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doorbelling (page history and authors); doorbell (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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