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graying

graying is the present participle and gerund of gray.

Meaning of gray

Verb

gray (third-person singular simple present grays, present participle graying, simple past and past participle grayed)

  1. (US, ergative) To turn gray.
    • My hair is beginning to gray.
  2. (US, slang) To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
    • the graying of America
  3. (US, transitive) To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.

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Phrases with graying

Questions about graying

What is graying the present participle and gerund of?
Graying is the present participle and gerund of gray.

Words near graying in the dictionary

  1. grayhens
  2. grayhound
  3. grayhounds
  4. grayier
  5. grayiest
  6. graying
  7. graying out
  8. grayish
  9. grayishly
  10. grayishness
  11. grayite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: graying (page history and authors); gray (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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