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droning on

droning on is the present participle and gerund of drone on.

Meaning of drone on

Verb

drone on (third-person singular simple present drones on, present participle droning on, simple past and past participle droned on)

  1. (intransitive) To talk in a boring manner for a long time.
    • Near-synonym: go on (sometimes synonymous)
    Synonyms:
    go on

Questions about droning on

What is droning on the present participle and gerund of?
Droning on is the present participle and gerund of drone on.

Words near droning on in the dictionary

  1. dronified
  2. dronifies
  3. dronify
  4. dronifying
  5. droning
  6. droning on
  7. droningly
  8. dronings
  9. dronish
  10. dronishly
  11. dronishness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: droning on (page history and authors); drone on (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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