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leafing out

leafing out is the present participle and gerund of leaf out.

Meaning of leaf out

Verb

leaf out (third-person singular simple present leafs out, present participle leafing out, simple past and past participle leafed out)

  1. (intransitive) Of a plant, to open its buds.

Questions about leafing out

What is leafing out the present participle and gerund of?
Leafing out is the present participle and gerund of leaf out.

Words near leafing out in the dictionary

  1. leafiest
  2. leafily
  3. leafiness
  4. leafinesses
  5. leafing
  6. leafing out
  7. leafing through
  8. leafings
  9. leafit
  10. leafits
  11. Leafland

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leafing out (page history and authors); leaf out (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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