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lowercasing

lowercasing is the present participle and gerund of lowercase.

Meaning of lowercase

Verb

lowercase (third-person singular simple present lowercases, present participle lowercasing, simple past and past participle lowercased)

  1. (transitive) To convert (text) to lower case.
    • Sister Jadallah apologizes for being unable to bring her readers facts and figures on Palestinian Lesbianism (forgive my capital "L" in Lesbianism, but like my Black brothers I cannot bring myself to lower-casing our recently empowering accoutrements of our Gay identities)1990 April 28, Harry Hay, “Identifying As Gay ― Here's The Key”, in Gay Community News, page 5

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Questions about lowercasing

What is lowercasing the present participle and gerund of?
Lowercasing is the present participle and gerund of lowercase.

Words near lowercasing in the dictionary

  1. lowercases
  2. lowercasified
  3. lowercasifies
  4. lowercasify
  5. lowercasifying
  6. lowercasing
  7. lowerclassman
  8. lowerclassmen
  9. lowered
  10. lowered one's guard
  11. lowered one's sights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lowercasing (page history and authors); lowercase (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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