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incubing

incubing is the present participle and gerund of incube.

Meaning of incube

Verb

incube (third-person singular simple present incubes, present participle incubing, simple past and past participle incubed)

  1. To bury or encase.
    • it is the most dividing and schismatical form that geometricians know of , and must be fain to inglobe or incube herself among the presbyters1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC
  2. To incubate.
    • Cartilage was incubed for 24 hours in basal medium containing 0.1 % ovalbumin with or without additions.1973, Salvatore Raiti, Advances in Human Growth Hormone Research, page 82

Questions about incubing

What is incubing the present participle and gerund of?
Incubing is the present participle and gerund of incube.

Words near incubing in the dictionary

  1. incubed
  2. incubee
  3. incubees
  4. incubes
  5. incubi
  6. incubing
  7. incubiture
  8. incubous
  9. incubously
  10. incubus
  11. incubuses

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