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flashlighting

flashlighting is the present participle and gerund of flashlight.

Meaning of flashlight

Verb

flashlight (third-person singular simple present flashlights, present participle flashlighting, simple past and past participle flashlit or flashlighted)

  1. (transitive) To illuminate with a flashlight.
    • Autis stepped carefully while flashlighting the fog in front of himself and Gar.2011, Bart Bare, Wadmalaw: A Ghost Story, page 51

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Questions about flashlighting

What is flashlighting the present participle and gerund of?
Flashlighting is the present participle and gerund of flashlight.

Words near flashlighting in the dictionary

  1. flashlight fish
  2. flashlight fishes
  3. flashlighted
  4. flashlightfish
  5. flashlightfishes
  6. flashlighting
  7. flashlights
  8. flashlike
  9. flashline
  10. flashlines
  11. flashlit

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