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doping out

doping out is the present participle and gerund of dope out.

Meaning of dope out

Verb

dope out (third-person singular simple present dopes out, present participle doping out, simple past and past participle doped out)

  1. (colloquial, dated, transitive) To figure out, to find out, find, decipher
    • "All the same, I believe it was the hand of Fate that doped out the way for me to find her."1906, O. Henry, The Green Door

Noun

doping out (uncountable)

  1. The action of figuring out.
    • ‘I’ll admit,’ he conceded, ‘that right now I can’t think of where any of us will figure. That’ll need a lot of doping out.’1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 59

Questions about doping out

What does doping out mean?
Doping out means the action of figuring out.
What is doping out the present participle and gerund of?
Doping out is the present participle and gerund of dope out.
What part of speech is doping out?
Doping out is a noun.

Words near doping out in the dictionary

  1. dopiest
  2. dopily
  3. dopiness
  4. doping
  5. doping off
  6. doping out
  7. doping up
  8. dopings
  9. doplic
  10. doplich
  11. Dopp

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doping out (page history and authors); dope out (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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