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garbaging

garbaging is the present participle and gerund of garbage.

Meaning of garbage

Verb

garbage (third-person singular simple present garbages, present participle garbaging, simple past and past participle garbaged)

  1. (Australia, Canada, US, obsolete, transitive) to eviscerate
    • I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.1674, John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted in William Butts Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907, The Outing Publishing Company)

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Questions about garbaging

What is garbaging the present participle and gerund of?
Garbaging is the present participle and gerund of garbage.

Words near garbaging in the dictionary

  1. garbagewomen
  2. garbagey
  3. garbaggio
  4. garbagier
  5. garbagiest
  6. garbaging
  7. garbagy
  8. garbanzo
  9. garbanzo bean
  10. garbanzo beans
  11. garbanzos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: garbaging (page history and authors); garbage (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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