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noosing

noosing is the present participle and gerund of noose.

Meaning of noose

Verb

noose (third-person singular simple present nooses, present participle noosing, simple past and past participle noosed)

  1. (transitive) To tie or catch in a noose; to entrap or ensnare.

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Noun

noosing (countable and uncountable, plural noosings)

  1. The tying of a noose.
    • It is very unpleasant being hanged on a dark winter morning; very cold, very friendless, very inhuman. The long trial, the solitude and the confinement, the thoughts of the long sleepless night before, the hangman and the pinioning and the noosing of the rope, are apt to prey on the imagination.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

Forms of noosing

pluralnoosings

Questions about noosing

What does noosing mean?
Noosing means the tying of a noose.
What is noosing the present participle and gerund of?
Noosing is the present participle and gerund of noose.
What part of speech is noosing?
Noosing is a noun.
What is the plural of noosing?
The plural of noosing is noosings.

Words near noosing in the dictionary

  1. nooses
  2. noosfia
  3. noosfias
  4. noosign
  5. noosigns
  6. noosing
  7. noosings
  8. noosphere
  9. noospheres
  10. noospheric
  11. noot

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