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imperfecting

imperfecting is the present participle and gerund of imperfect.

Meaning of imperfect

Verb

imperfect (third-person singular simple present imperfects, present participle imperfecting, simple past and past participle imperfected)

  1. (transitive) to make imperfect
    • I write to you from the Spring Garden, whither I withdrew my self to think of this; and the intensenesse of my thinking ends in this, that by my help Gods work should be imperfected, if by any means I resisted the amasement.1651, John Donne, Letter to Henry Goodere, in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, edited by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1910

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Questions about imperfecting

What is imperfecting the present participle and gerund of?
Imperfecting is the present participle and gerund of imperfect.

Words near imperfecting in the dictionary

  1. imperfecter
  2. imperfectest
  3. imperfectibility
  4. imperfectible
  5. imperfectibly
  6. imperfecting
  7. imperfection
  8. imperfectionist
  9. imperfectionists
  10. imperfections
  11. imperfective

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