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grotesqueing

grotesqueing is the present participle and gerund of grotesque.

Meaning of grotesque

Verb

grotesque (third-person singular simple present grotesques, present participle grotesquing or grotesqueing, simple past and past participle grotesqued)

  1. (transitive) To make grotesque.
    • Why, when I saw that bestiality— / So beyond all brute-beast imagining, / That when, to point the moral at the close, / Poor Salabaccho, just to show how fair / Was ‘Reconciliation,’ stripped her charms, / That exhibition simply bade us breathe, / Seemed something healthy and commendable / After...1875, Robert Browning, Aristophanes’ Apology […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 27

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Questions about grotesqueing

What is grotesqueing the present participle and gerund of?
Grotesqueing is the present participle and gerund of grotesque.

Words near grotesqueing in the dictionary

  1. grotchy
  2. grote
  3. grotes
  4. grotesque
  5. grotesqued
  6. grotesqueing
  7. grotesquely
  8. grotesqueness
  9. grotesquenesses
  10. grotesquer
  11. grotesquerie

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