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forking off

forking off is the present participle and gerund of fork off.

Meaning of fork off

Verb

fork off (third-person singular simple present forks off, present participle forking off, simple past and past participle forked off)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to diverge into two or more separate paths.
    Synonyms:
    branch off

Questions about forking off

What is forking off the present participle and gerund of?
Forking off is the present participle and gerund of fork off.

Words near forking off in the dictionary

  1. forkheads
  2. forkier
  3. forkiest
  4. forkiness
  5. forking
  6. forking off
  7. forking out
  8. forking over
  9. forkings
  10. forkless
  11. forklift

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forking off (page history and authors); fork off (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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