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gearing to

gearing to is the present participle and gerund of gear to.

Meaning of gear to

Verb

gear to (third-person singular simple present gears to, present participle gearing to, simple past and past participle geared to)

  1. To design or adapt so as to suit (someone).

Questions about gearing to

What is gearing to the present participle and gerund of?
Gearing to is the present participle and gerund of gear to.

Words near gearing to in the dictionary

  1. Gearheart
  2. Gearhearts
  3. Gearin
  4. gearing
  5. gearing down
  6. gearing to
  7. gearing towards
  8. gearing up
  9. gearings
  10. Gearins
  11. gearjammer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gearing to (page history and authors); gear to (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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