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litting

litting is the present participle and gerund of lit.

Meaning of lit

Verb (1)

lit (third-person singular simple present lits, present participle litting, simple past and past participle litted)

  1. (US, dialectal) To run or light (alight).
    • With that the kid lits off down the street, and, what do you know!1988 April 8, Grant Pick, “Johnny Washington's Life”, in Chicago Reader

Verb (2)

lit (third-person singular simple present lits, present participle litting, simple past and past participle litted)

  1. (transitive) To colour; dye.

See all 11 meanings of lit

Questions about litting

What is litting the present participle and gerund of?
Litting is the present participle and gerund of lit.

Words near litting in the dictionary

  1. littery
  2. litteræ humaniores
  3. littest
  4. litti
  5. Littie
  6. litting
  7. littis
  8. littl'un
  9. littl'uns
  10. little
  11. Little Abington

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Adapted from Wiktionary: litting (page history and authors); lit (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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