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perfuming

perfuming is the present participle and gerund of perfume.

Meaning of perfume

Verb

perfume (third-person singular simple present perfumes, present participle perfuming, simple past and past participle perfumed)

  1. (transitive) To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

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Questions about perfuming

What is perfuming the present participle and gerund of?
Perfuming is the present participle and gerund of perfume.

Words near perfuming in the dictionary

  1. perfumery
  2. perfumes
  3. perfumey
  4. perfumier
  5. perfumiers
  6. perfuming
  7. perfumista
  8. perfumistas
  9. perfumy
  10. perfunctorily
  11. perfunctoriness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perfuming (page history and authors); perfume (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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