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namesearching

namesearching is the present participle of namesearch.

Meaning of namesearch

Verb

namesearch (third-person singular simple present namesearches, present participle namesearching, simple past and past participle namesearched)

  1. (Internet) To search for a person's name (particularly one's own) on a social media platform for the purpose of obsessively reading and engaging with posts containing it.
    • Ricky Gervais namesearches himself and that's the funniest thing he does2018 March 17, Ratio Hornblower (@OneStrawShort), Twitter
    Synonyms:
    kiboze

Questions about namesearching

What is namesearching the present participle of?
Namesearching is the present participle of namesearch.

Words near namesearching in the dictionary

  1. namesclop
  2. namesclops
  3. namesearch
  4. namesearched
  5. namesearches
  6. namesearching
  7. nameserver
  8. nameservers
  9. namesign
  10. namesigns
  11. namesmanship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: namesearching (page history and authors); namesearch (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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