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going to the bathroom

going to the bathroom is the present participle and gerund of go to the bathroom.

Meaning of go to the bathroom

Verb

go to the bathroom (third-person singular simple present goes to the bathroom, present participle going to the bathroom, simple past went to the bathroom, past participle gone to the bathroom)

  1. (US, euphemistic) Synonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a bathroom.
    • He had been married to Vi for twenty-one years, and he still found it impossible to go to the bathroom when she was in there with him.1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger
    Synonyms:
    use the toilet

Questions about going to the bathroom

What is going to the bathroom the present participle and gerund of?
Going to the bathroom is the present participle and gerund of go to the bathroom.

Words near going to the bathroom in the dictionary

  1. going to show
  2. going to sleep
  3. going to smash
  4. going to someone's head
  5. going to the bad
  6. going to the bathroom
  7. going to the bow-wows
  8. going to the country
  9. going to the devil
  10. going to the dogs
  11. going to the ends of the earth

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