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gazelling

gazelling is the present participle and gerund of gazelle.

Meaning of gazelle

Verb

gazelle (third-person singular simple present gazelles, present participle gazelling, simple past and past participle gazelled)

  1. (figuratively, intransitive) To leap like a gazelle.
    • And all of the pine trees were in a bad state of repair, owning charred stumps of arms and blasted heads. Quite a number of them were dead; some of the corpses leaned starkly back in the arms of a live brother, but most of them preferred to fall across the road. Owing to this the car was soon...1917, Marion Hill, chapter 2, in McAllister’s Grove, page 21
  2. (figuratively, intransitive) To go fast; to speed; to rush.
    • Nadezhda and I biked over together, me dressed in colonial whites, trundling along with other cyclists gazelling by me on both sides […]1990, Kim Stanley Robinson, Pacific Edge, page 90

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Questions about gazelling

What is gazelling the present participle and gerund of?
Gazelling is the present participle and gerund of gazelle.

Words near gazelling in the dictionary

  1. gazelle on the lawn
  2. gazelled
  3. gazellelike
  4. gazelles
  5. gazelline
  6. gazelling
  7. gazels
  8. gazement
  9. gazer
  10. gazers
  11. gazes

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