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Pavloving

Pavloving is the present participle and gerund of Pavlov.

Meaning of Pavlov

Verb

Pavlov (third-person singular simple present Pavlovs, present participle Pavloving, simple past and past participle Pavloved or Pavlov'd)

  1. To condition a person or animal to react to a stimulus, without consideration to the meaning of it.
    • Or have my past experiences of Verity Audio’s loudspeakers Pavloved me into associating this look with this sound?(Can we date this quote?), Jason Thorpe, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

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Questions about Pavloving

What is Pavloving the present participle and gerund of?
Pavloving is the present participle and gerund of Pavlov.

Words near Pavloving in the dictionary

  1. Pavlovians
  2. Pavlovic
  3. Pavlovich
  4. Pavloviches
  5. Pavlovics
  6. Pavloving
  7. Pavlovs
  8. Pavlovsk
  9. PAVN
  10. Pavo
  11. pavon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pavloving (page history and authors); Pavlov (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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