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fornicating

fornicating is the present participle and gerund of fornicate.

Meaning of fornicate

Verb

fornicate (third-person singular simple present fornicates, present participle fornicating, simple past and past participle fornicated)

  1. (intransitive) To engage in fornication.

See all 2 meanings of fornicate

Adjective

fornicating (not comparable)

  1. (euphemistic, literary) A euphemism of "fucking" as an intensifier.
    • “You lousy, fornicating pimp!” he said, his voice shaking with fury.1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 202

Questions about fornicating

What does fornicating mean?
Fornicating means a euphemism of "fucking" as an intensifier.
What is fornicating the present participle and gerund of?
Fornicating is the present participle and gerund of fornicate.
What part of speech is fornicating?
Fornicating is an adjective.

Words near fornicating in the dictionary

  1. fornicate gyri
  2. fornicate gyrus
  3. fornicate gyruses
  4. fornicated
  5. fornicates
  6. fornicating
  7. fornication
  8. fornications
  9. fornicative
  10. fornicator
  11. fornicatoria

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fornicating (page history and authors); fornicate (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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