overnighting
overnighting is the present participle and gerund of overnight.
Meaning of overnight
Verb
overnight (third-person singular simple present overnights, present participle overnighting, simple past and past participle overnighted)
- To stay overnight; to spend the night.
- His visits to Paris (which he had not allowed his son to visit until he was a teenager) became less frequent too: he never over-nighted there, for example, after 1744.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 128
- To send something for delivery the next day.
- We can overnight you the documents for signature.
Questions about overnighting
- What is overnighting the present participle and gerund of?
- Overnighting is the present participle and gerund of overnight.
Words near overnighting in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: overnighting (page history and authors); overnight (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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