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laconizing

laconizing is the present participle and gerund of laconize.

Meaning of laconize

Verb

laconize (third-person singular simple present laconizes, present participle laconizing, simple past and past participle laconized)

  1. (intransitive) To imitate the manner of the Laconians, especially in brief, pithy speech, or in frugality and austerity.

Questions about laconizing

What is laconizing the present participle and gerund of?
Laconizing is the present participle and gerund of laconize.

Words near laconizing in the dictionary

  1. laconist
  2. laconization
  3. laconize
  4. laconized
  5. laconizes
  6. laconizing
  7. Lacono-
  8. laconomania
  9. laconomaniac
  10. laconophile
  11. Laconophilia

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