dyeing
/ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/
dyeing is the present participle and gerund of dye.
Meaning of dye
Verb
dye (third-person singular simple present dyes, present participle dyeing or (now nonstandard) dying, simple past and past participle dyed)
- To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
- You look different. Have you had your hair dyed?
Noun
dyeing (plural dyeings)
- The act by which something is dyed.
- Ninety per cent of the dyeings on silk, 72 per cent of the dyeings on rayon, 70 per cent of the dyeings on cotton showed no color change.1930, United States. National Bureau of Standards, Bureau of Standards journal of research, volume 3, page 50
- In the traditional workshops of Surakarta, where the best quality batik tulis textiles are still created, low-paid women and girls use melted wax to meticulously hand-draw patterns before subsequent dyeings and rewaxings, […]2013, Lyn Parker, Pam Nilan, Adolescents in Contemporary Indonesia, page 52
Forms of dyeing
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Words formed from dyeing
Phrases with dyeing
Words that rhyme with dyeing
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- bespying
- buying
- clying
- complying
- decrying
- defying
- denying
- descrying
- espying
- forbuying
- frying
- goodbyeing
- high-flying
- highing
- implying
- lyeing
- lying
- mistrying
- nighing
- outvying
- pieing
- plying
- prying
- rebuying
- redyeing
- refrying
- relying
- replying
- retrying
- retying
- scrying
- shanghaiing
- shying
- sighing
- skying
- speed flying
- spying
- stying
- supplying
- thighing
- unbuying
- uncrying
- undrying
- undyeing
- undying
- unflying
- unfrying
- unlying
Questions about dyeing
- What does dyeing mean?
- Dyeing means the act by which something is dyed.
- What is dyeing the present participle and gerund of?
- Dyeing is the present participle and gerund of dye.
- What part of speech is dyeing?
- Dyeing is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dyeing?
- Dyeing is pronounced /ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of dyeing?
- The plural of dyeing is dyeings.
Words near dyeing in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dyeing (page history and authors); dye (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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