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extraposing

extraposing is the present participle and gerund of extrapose.

Meaning of extrapose

Verb

extrapose (third-person singular simple present extraposes, present participle extraposing, simple past and past participle extraposed)

  1. (transitive) To move (an element of a phrase) by extraposition.

Questions about extraposing

What is extraposing the present participle and gerund of?
Extraposing is the present participle and gerund of extrapose.

Words near extraposing in the dictionary

  1. extrapopular
  2. extraposable
  3. extrapose
  4. extraposed
  5. extraposes
  6. extraposing
  7. extraposition
  8. extrapositions
  9. extraprofessional
  10. extraprosodic
  11. extraprosodically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: extraposing (page history and authors); extrapose (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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