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opening the door

opening the door is the present participle and gerund of open the door.

Meaning of open the door

Verb

open the door (third-person singular simple present opens the door, present participle opening the door, simple past and past participle opened the door)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see open, door.
  2. (idiomatic) To allow access or facilitate.
    • the court's decision today opens the door to future partisan manipulations

Questions about opening the door

What is opening the door the present participle and gerund of?
Opening the door is the present participle and gerund of open the door.

Words near opening the door in the dictionary

  1. opening speeches
  2. opening statement
  3. opening statements
  4. opening the ball
  5. opening the batting
  6. opening the door
  7. opening the floodgates
  8. opening the kimono
  9. opening the range
  10. opening time
  11. opening times

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Adapted from Wiktionary: opening the door (page history and authors); open the door (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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