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epitaphing

epitaphing is the present participle and gerund of epitaph.

Meaning of epitaph

Verb

epitaph (third-person singular simple present epitaphs, present participle epitaphing, simple past and past participle epitaphed)

  1. (intransitive) To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
    • The Commons in their speeches epitaph upon him […] "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog."1606, Joseph Hall, Heaven upon Earth
  2. (transitive) To commemorate by an epitaph.
    • Let me rather be epitaphed the inventor of the English Hexameter.1592, Gabriel Harvey, Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets

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Questions about epitaphing

What is epitaphing the present participle and gerund of?
Epitaphing is the present participle and gerund of epitaph.

Words near epitaphing in the dictionary

  1. epitaphian
  2. epitaphic
  3. epitaphical
  4. epitaphically
  5. epitaphics
  6. epitaphing
  7. epitaphion
  8. epitaphions
  9. epitaphist
  10. epitaphists
  11. epitaphize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: epitaphing (page history and authors); epitaph (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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