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microaggressing

microaggressing is the present participle and gerund of microaggress.

Meaning of microaggress

Verb

microaggress (third-person singular simple present microaggresses, present participle microaggressing, simple past and past participle microaggressed)

  1. (intransitive) To perform one or more acts of microaggression.
    • Every chapter presents an integrated "way forward" section that provides practical steps that we ourselves can take in order to better understand and control our own tendency to microaggress.2010, Derald Wing Sue, Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation, →ISBN, Forward
  2. (transitive) To perform one or more acts of microaggression directed at (someone).
    • You are microaggressing me and it is not okay. Period. End of story.2011 April 12, Nellie, "I Wear Heels, Stop Judging Me," ourwiredlives.com (retrieved 23 Feb 2014)

Questions about microaggressing

What is microaggressing the present participle and gerund of?
Microaggressing is the present participle and gerund of microaggress.

Words near microaggressing in the dictionary

  1. microaggress
  2. microaggressed
  3. microaggressee
  4. microaggressees
  5. microaggresses
  6. microaggressing
  7. microaggression
  8. microaggressions
  9. microaggressive
  10. microaggressively
  11. microaggressor

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