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margarining

margarining is the present participle and gerund of margarine.

Meaning of margarine

Verb

margarine (third-person singular simple present margarines, present participle margarining, simple past and past participle margarined)

  1. (transitive) To spread or cover (something) with margarine.
    • Putting the finishing touches on her party dinner, this attractive hostess does the last minute job of margarining her rolls to serve piping hot to her guests.1952 May 15, “Pretty Hostess Adds Finishing Touch”, in C[harles] L[ee] Blanton, Jr., editor, Daily Sikeston Standard, volume 40, number 200, Sikeston, Mo.: Sikeston Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 2...
    Synonyms:
    marge

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Questions about margarining

What is margarining the present participle and gerund of?
Margarining is the present participle and gerund of margarine.

Words near margarining in the dictionary

  1. margarineless
  2. margarinelike
  3. margarinely
  4. margarines
  5. margariney
  6. margarining
  7. margarins
  8. margarita
  9. margaritaceous
  10. Margaritagate
  11. margaritas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: margarining (page history and authors); margarine (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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