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outreaching

outreaching is the present participle and gerund of outreach.

Meaning of outreach

Verb

outreach (third-person singular simple present outreaches, present participle outreaching, simple past and past participle outreached)

  1. (transitive) To reach further than.
  2. (transitive) To surpass or exceed.
  3. (intransitive) To go too far.
  4. (intransitive) To provide charitable or religious services to people who would otherwise not have access to those services.

See all 8 meanings of outreach

Noun

outreaching (plural outreachings)

  1. An act of reaching out.
    • She had her confused outreachings toward other centres of sensation, her vague intuition of a heliocentric system; but the attraction of habit, the steady pressure of example, gradually fixed her roving allegiance[…]1901, Edith Wharton, Crucial Instances

Forms of outreaching

pluraloutreachings

Questions about outreaching

What does outreaching mean?
Outreaching means an act of reaching out.
What is outreaching the present participle and gerund of?
Outreaching is the present participle and gerund of outreach.
What part of speech is outreaching?
Outreaching is a noun.
What is the plural of outreaching?
The plural of outreaching is outreachings.

Words near outreaching in the dictionary

  1. outrays
  2. outre
  3. outreach
  4. outreached
  5. outreaches
  6. outreaching
  7. outreachings
  8. outread
  9. outreading
  10. outreads
  11. outreason

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