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edit warring

edit warring is the present participle and gerund of edit war.

Meaning of edit war

Verb

edit war (third-person singular simple present edit wars, present participle edit warring, simple past and past participle edit warred)

  1. (intransitive, wiki jargon) To engage in an edit war.
    • When a dispute arises, it is common to see a page protected to avoid edit warring.

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Questions about edit warring

What is edit warring the present participle and gerund of?
Edit warring is the present participle and gerund of edit war.

Words near edit warring in the dictionary

  1. edit distances
  2. edit in
  3. edit out
  4. edit war
  5. edit warred
  6. edit warring
  7. edit warrior
  8. edit warriors
  9. edit wars
  10. edit-a-thon
  11. edit-a-thons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: edit warring (page history and authors); edit war (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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