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doubling over

doubling over is the present participle and gerund of double over.

Meaning of double over

Verb

double over (third-person singular simple present doubles over, present participle doubling over, simple past and past participle doubled over)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To bend over deeply at the waist.
    • Near-synonyms: double up, buckle over
  2. (transitive, usually, fabric) To fold in half.
    • He doubled over the sheet of paper and wrote something on the back.

Questions about doubling over

What is doubling over the present participle and gerund of?
Doubling over is the present participle and gerund of double over.

Words near doubling over in the dictionary

  1. doubling dice
  2. doubling die
  3. doubling down
  4. doubling in brass
  5. doubling off
  6. doubling over
  7. doubling time
  8. doubling times
  9. doubling up
  10. doubling-down
  11. doublings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doubling over (page history and authors); double over (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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