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inscribing

inscribing is the present participle and gerund of inscribe.

Meaning of inscribe

Verb

inscribe (third-person singular simple present inscribes, present participle inscribing, simple past and past participle inscribed)

  1. (transitive) To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.
    • I inscribed the book with a message for Kate.
  2. (transitive) To dedicate to someone.
  3. (transitive) To enter on a document or list; to enroll.
  4. To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.
    Antonyms:
    escribe

Questions about inscribing

What is inscribing the present participle and gerund of?
Inscribing is the present participle and gerund of inscribe.

Words near inscribing in the dictionary

  1. inscriber
  2. inscribers
  3. inscribes
  4. inscribest
  5. inscribeth
  6. inscribing
  7. inscript
  8. inscriptable
  9. inscripted
  10. inscriptibility
  11. inscriptible

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inscribing (page history and authors); inscribe (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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