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progenerating

progenerating is the present participle and gerund of progenerate.

Meaning of progenerate

Verb

progenerate (third-person singular simple present progenerates, present participle progenerating, simple past and past participle progenerated)

  1. (transitive) To beget; to generate; to produce.
    • Nothing more than that which we can handle , cast down , bury ; and surely not he who is yet to progenerate a more numerous and far better race , than during the few years it was permitted us to converse with him.1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC

Questions about progenerating

What is progenerating the present participle and gerund of?
Progenerating is the present participle and gerund of progenerate.

Words near progenerating in the dictionary

  1. progenates
  2. progenation
  3. progenerate
  4. progenerated
  5. progenerates
  6. progenerating
  7. progeneration
  8. progenerations
  9. progenerative
  10. progenesis
  11. progenetic

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