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forstopping

forstopping is the present participle and gerund of forstop.

Meaning of forstop

Verb

forstop (third-person singular simple present forstops, present participle forstopping, simple past and past participle forstopped or forstopt)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To stop up; block; clog; obstruct; to stifle (the breath); to dam up (a watercourse).

Questions about forstopping

What is forstopping the present participle and gerund of?
Forstopping is the present participle and gerund of forstop.

Words near forstopping in the dictionary

  1. forstole
  2. forstolen
  3. forstood
  4. forstop
  5. forstopped
  6. forstopping
  7. forstops
  8. forstopt
  9. forstorite
  10. forstraught
  11. Forsts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forstopping (page history and authors); forstop (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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