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fuguing

fuguing is the present participle and gerund of fugue.

Meaning of fugue

Verb

fugue (third-person singular simple present fugues, present participle fuguing, simple past and past participle fugued)

  1. To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.
  2. (intransitive) To spend time in a dissociative fugue state.
    • And most of them women, and these only stayed in a fugue state for a relatively short time, like a couple of hours or a couple of days. As far as we know Malenov fugued for close to twenty years.2014, Richard D. Dalrymple, Fugue, page 33

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Questions about fuguing

What is fuguing the present participle and gerund of?
Fuguing is the present participle and gerund of fugue.

Words near fuguing in the dictionary

  1. fugue state
  2. fugue states
  3. fugued
  4. fuguelike
  5. fugues
  6. fuguing
  7. fuguist
  8. fuguists
  9. fugutoxin
  10. fuh
  11. fuh sheezy

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