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inching along

inching along is the present participle and gerund of inch along.

Meaning of inch along

Verb

inch along (third-person singular simple present inches along, present participle inching along, simple past and past participle inched along)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To move slowly or to make progress gradually, bit by bit.

Questions about inching along

What is inching along the present participle and gerund of?
Inching along is the present participle and gerund of inch along.

Words near inching along in the dictionary

  1. inchfuls
  2. Inchgarvie
  3. inchi
  4. Inchicore
  5. inching
  6. inching along
  7. inching away
  8. inching back
  9. inching forward
  10. inching up
  11. inchingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inching along (page history and authors); inch along (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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