Word.ws English Dictionary

molehilling

molehilling is the present participle and gerund of molehill.

Meaning of molehill

Verb

molehill (third-person singular simple present molehills, present participle molehilling, simple past and past participle molehilled)

  1. To exaggerate a problem and perceive it as larger or worse than it actually is.
    • As Brazil faced the mountainous task of completing an Olympic venue before the opening ceremony, Chinese netizens got busy molehilling a remark by a Rio construction manager about their China supplier.2016 August 4, “Off-hand remark in Rio chafes Chinese Net”, in Global Times, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2020

See all 2 meanings of molehill

Questions about molehilling

What is molehilling the present participle and gerund of?
Molehilling is the present participle and gerund of molehill.

Words near molehilling in the dictionary

  1. molehill
  2. Molehill Green
  3. molehill mountaineer
  4. molehill mountaineers
  5. molehilled
  6. molehilling
  7. molehills
  8. molehilly
  9. molehunt
  10. molehunter
  11. molehunters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: molehilling (page history and authors); molehill (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “molehilling.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/molehilling. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.