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onsighting

onsighting is the present participle and gerund of onsight.

Meaning of onsight

Verb

onsight (third-person singular simple present onsights, present participle onsighting, simple past and past participle onsighted)

  1. (transitive) To perform a climb without having previously seen the terrain.

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Questions about onsighting

What is onsighting the present participle and gerund of?
Onsighting is the present participle and gerund of onsight.

Words near onsighting in the dictionary

  1. onsides
  2. onsie
  3. onsies
  4. onsight
  5. onsighted
  6. onsighting
  7. onsights
  8. onsite
  9. onslaught
  10. onslaughter
  11. onslaughters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onsighting (page history and authors); onsight (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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