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herniating

herniating is the present participle and gerund of herniate.

Meaning of herniate

Verb

herniate (third-person singular simple present herniates, present participle herniating, simple past and past participle herniated)

  1. (intransitive) Of a tissue, structure, or part of an organ: to protrude through the muscular tissue or the membrane by which it is normally contained, causing a hernia.
    • When the small intestine herniates into the groin, one has an inguinal hernia.

Questions about herniating

What is herniating the present participle and gerund of?
Herniating is the present participle and gerund of herniate.

Words near herniating in the dictionary

  1. herniary
  2. hernias
  3. herniate
  4. herniated
  5. herniates
  6. herniating
  7. herniation
  8. herniations
  9. Hernican
  10. Hernicans
  11. Hernici

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Adapted from Wiktionary: herniating (page history and authors); herniate (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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