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leaping out

leaping out is the present participle and gerund of leap out.

Meaning of leap out

Verb

leap out (third-person singular simple present leaps out, present participle leaping out, simple past and past participle leapt out or leaped out)

  1. (idiomatic) To stand in stark contrast to something; to be immediately noticeable or apparent.

Questions about leaping out

What is leaping out the present participle and gerund of?
Leaping out is the present participle and gerund of leap out.

Words near leaping out in the dictionary

  1. leaping house
  2. leaping houses
  3. leaping into action
  4. Leaping Lena
  5. leaping lizards
  6. leaping out
  7. leaping through hoops
  8. leaping to mind
  9. leaping up
  10. leaping-house
  11. leaping-houses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leaping out (page history and authors); leap 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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