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poring over

poring over is the present participle and gerund of pore over.

Meaning of pore over

Verb

pore over (third-person singular simple present pores over, present participle poring over, simple past and past participle pored over)

  1. (transitive) To examine something (especially written material) carefully and attentively.
    • While the pictures of what precisely unfolded after Cissé looked to tread on Evans are not entirely conclusive, the Football Association will surely pore over them on Thursday before quite possibly using video evidence to impose lengthy retrospective bans stemming from an incident unseen by Anthony...2015 March 4, Louise Taylor, The Guardian

Questions about poring over

What is poring over the present participle and gerund of?
Poring over is the present participle and gerund of pore over.

Words near poring over in the dictionary

  1. porine
  2. porines
  3. poriness
  4. porinflammatory
  5. poring
  6. poring over
  7. poringly
  8. porings
  9. porins
  10. poriomania
  11. porion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poring over (page history and authors); pore over (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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