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IDing

IDing is the present participle and gerund of ID.

Meaning of ID

Verb

ID (third-person singular simple present IDs or ID's, present participle IDing or ID'ing, simple past and past participle IDed or ID'ed or ID'd)

  1. (transitive) To identify (an object, etc.).
    • Police have been unable to ID the body found in the river.
  2. (transitive) To request to see a person’s identification for proof of identity or age.
    • The bartender will have to ID you before serving you a drink.
  3. (intransitive) To identify (as something)
    • I have one black grandfather, but I don't ID as mixed race

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Questions about IDing

What is IDing the present participle and gerund of?
IDing is the present participle and gerund of ID.

Words near IDing in the dictionary

  1. idiasms
  2. Idiazabal
  3. Idiazabal cheese
  4. idic
  5. idigbo
  6. IDing
  7. idio-
  8. idioadaptive
  9. idioandrosporous
  10. idiobiological
  11. idiobiology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: IDing (page history and authors); ID (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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