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lulling

lulling is the present participle and gerund of lull.

Meaning of lull

Verb

lull (third-person singular simple present lulls, present participle lulling, simple past and past participle lulled)

  1. (transitive) To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm
    • To lull him soft a sleepe1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30
    Synonyms:
    soothe, quiet, appease
  2. (intransitive) To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.
    • The storm lulled.
  3. (transitive) To give somebody a false sense of security so that an unpleasant situation takes the person by surprise.
    • They lulled us into thinking we still had time.

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Words formed from lulling

Questions about lulling

What is lulling the present participle and gerund of?
Lulling is the present participle and gerund of lull.

Words near lulling in the dictionary

  1. lulliloo'ing
  2. lulliloo's
  3. lullilooed
  4. lullilooing
  5. lulliloos
  6. lulling
  7. lullingly
  8. Lullingstone
  9. Lullington
  10. Lullism
  11. Lullist

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