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inroading

inroading is the present participle and gerund of inroad.

Meaning of inroad

Verb

inroad (third-person singular simple present inroads, present participle inroading, simple past and past participle inroaded)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To make advances or incursions.
    • [Y]ou muſt not expect him to go with you, inroading or making incurſions into Georgia; for he is an Armenian, true to his faith; and not a Georgian, falſe and diſtruſtful!1792, Joseph Emin, The Life and Adventures of Joseph Émïn, an Armenian. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 358
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To make an inroad into (something).
    • [Y]ea, the Saracens had lately waſted Italy, conquered Spain, inroded Aquitain, and poſſeſſed ſome iſlands in the mid-land-ſea.1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Character of Peter the Hermite; His Soliciting the Holy Warre; the Councel at Clermont, and the Successe thereof”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge...
    Synonyms:
    invade

See all 5 meanings of inroad

Adjective

inroading (not comparable)

  1. invasive

Questions about inroading

What does inroading mean?
Inroading means invasive.
What is inroading the present participle and gerund of?
Inroading is the present participle and gerund of inroad.
What part of speech is inroading?
Inroading is an adjective.

Words near inroading in the dictionary

  1. inro
  2. inroad
  3. inroaded
  4. inroader
  5. inroaders
  6. inroading
  7. inroads
  8. inrode
  9. inroll
  10. inrolled
  11. inrolling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inroading (page history and authors); inroad (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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