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drilling out

drilling out is the present participle and gerund of drill out.

Meaning of drill out

Verb

drill out (third-person singular simple present drills out, present participle drilling out, simple past and past participle drilled out)

  1. (intransitive) To switch from a database or other data source to another.
    • You're looking at recent data, but you can drill out to the archives too.

Questions about drilling out

What is drilling out the present participle and gerund of?
Drilling out is the present participle and gerund of drill out.

Words near drilling out in the dictionary

  1. drilling down
  2. drilling fluid
  3. drilling fluids
  4. drilling hammer
  5. drilling in
  6. drilling out
  7. drilling rig
  8. drilling rigs
  9. drilling through
  10. drilling up
  11. drillings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drilling out (page history and authors); drill 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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