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imprinting on

imprinting on is the present participle and gerund of imprint on.

Meaning of imprint on

Verb

imprint on (third-person singular simple present imprints on, present participle imprinting on, simple past and past participle imprinted on)

  1. To come to accept, inaccurately, that a creature or object is one's parent and consequently to act as if it is.

Questions about imprinting on

What is imprinting on the present participle and gerund of?
Imprinting on is the present participle and gerund of imprint on.

Words near imprinting on in the dictionary

  1. imprinters
  2. imprintery
  3. imprintest
  4. imprinteth
  5. imprinting
  6. imprinting on
  7. imprintings
  8. imprintome
  9. imprintomes
  10. imprints
  11. imprints on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imprinting on (page history and authors); imprint on (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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