Word.ws English Dictionary

high centring

high centring is the present participle and gerund of high centre.

Meaning of high centre

Verb

high centre (third-person singular simple present high centres, present participle high centring, simple past and past participle high centred)

  1. (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to become stranded with all wheels off the ground.
  2. (intransitive) To become stranded with all wheels off the ground.
    • He was afraid to get in with the cat because there was nowhere to push the snow, and as there was no side to push it to, he was afraid of getting high centred.1997, Ruth Oltmann, My Valley the Kananaskis, →ISBN, page 56

Questions about high centring

What is high centring the present participle and gerund of?
High centring is the present participle and gerund of high centre.

Words near high centring in the dictionary

  1. high centering
  2. high centers
  3. high centre
  4. high centred
  5. high centres
  6. high centring
  7. high chair
  8. high chairs
  9. high challenge
  10. high challenges
  11. high church

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: high centring (page history and authors); high centre (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “high centring.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/high_centring. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.