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ghooming

ghooming is the present participle and gerund of ghoom.

Meaning of ghoom

Verb

ghoom (third-person singular simple present ghooms, present participle ghooming, simple past and past participle ghoomed)

  1. (India, dated, intransitive) To hunt for animals by stealth in an area where they are likely to be found on the move.
    • Once more we ghoomed. Turning northward this time, it was the eastern portion of the plateau that we faced, rather rougher country than on the side we had lately traversed, […]1905, Alexander Inglis Robertson Glasfurd, Rifle and Romance in the Indian Jungle, page 86

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Questions about ghooming

What is ghooming the present participle and gerund of?
Ghooming is the present participle and gerund of ghoom.

Words near ghooming in the dictionary

  1. Ghoolendaadi
  2. ghoom
  3. ghoomar
  4. ghoomars
  5. ghoomed
  6. ghooming
  7. ghooms
  8. ghoonghat
  9. ghoonghats
  10. ghoont
  11. ghoonts

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