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padlocking

padlocking is the present participle and gerund of padlock.

Meaning of padlock

Verb

padlock (third-person singular simple present padlocks, present participle padlocking, simple past and past participle padlocked)

  1. (transitive) To lock using a padlock.
    • Janitors padlock the gates.1989, Del Amitri, “Nothing Ever Happens” (song)

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Questions about padlocking

What is padlocking the present participle and gerund of?
Padlocking is the present participle and gerund of padlock.

Words near padlocking in the dictionary

  1. Padleys
  2. padlike
  3. padlock
  4. padlockable
  5. padlocked
  6. padlocking
  7. padlocks
  8. padloper
  9. padlopers
  10. Padlos
  11. padma

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Adapted from Wiktionary: padlocking (page history and authors); padlock (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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