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promoving

promoving is the present participle and gerund of promove.

Meaning of promove

Verb

promove (third-person singular simple present promoves, present participle promoving, simple past and past participle promoved)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To move forward; to advance; to promote.
    • "If yee knew him," said she, "als weill as I doe, yee would never promove him to anie office in your Kirk."1646, David Calderwood, The Historie of the Kirk of Scotland

Questions about promoving

What is promoving the present participle and gerund of?
Promoving is the present participle and gerund of promove.

Words near promoving in the dictionary

  1. promove
  2. promoved
  3. promover
  4. promovers
  5. promoves
  6. promoving
  7. promoxolane
  8. promposal
  9. promposals
  10. prompose
  11. promposed

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