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gauzing

gauzing is the present participle and gerund of gauze.

Meaning of gauze

Verb

gauze (third-person singular simple present gauzes, present participle gauzing, simple past and past participle gauzed)

  1. (transitive) To apply a dressing of gauze; to cover with gauze.
    • The lid [of the feeder] has a circular gauzed area that allows the syrup to permeate slowly.2004, Peter Gordon, Starting with Bees, page 52
  2. (ambitransitive, literary) To mist; to make or become gauze-like.
    • The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 28

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Questions about gauzing

What is gauzing the present participle and gerund of?
Gauzing is the present participle and gerund of gauze.

Words near gauzing in the dictionary

  1. gauzes
  2. gauzier
  3. gauziest
  4. gauzily
  5. gauziness
  6. gauzing
  7. gauzoma
  8. gauzomas
  9. gauzy
  10. Gaußian
  11. Gav

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