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Hail Marying

Hail Marying is the present participle and gerund of Hail Mary.

Meaning of Hail Mary

Verb

Hail Mary (third-person singular simple present Hail Marys, present participle Hail Marying, simple past and past participle Hail Maryed)

  1. (often, reflexive) To pray by saying a Hail Mary.
    • He Hail Maryed himself to sleep every night and woke up Hail Marying in the morning, and to his amazement and delight it worked.2003, Ray Cranley, Chip Chop Cherry, →ISBN, page 120

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Questions about Hail Marying

What is Hail Marying the present participle and gerund of?
Hail Marying is the present participle and gerund of Hail Mary.

Words near Hail Marying in the dictionary

  1. Hail Mary
  2. Hail Mary bead
  3. Hail Mary pass
  4. Hail Mary passes
  5. Hail Maryed
  6. Hail Marying
  7. Hail Marys
  8. hail shaft
  9. hail shafts
  10. hail storm
  11. hail storms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hail Marying (page history and authors); Hail Mary (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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