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puppeting

puppeting is the present participle of puppet.

Meaning of puppet

Verb

puppet (third-person singular simple present puppets, present participle puppeting, simple past and past participle puppeted)

  1. (also, figuratively, transitive) To control or manipulate like a puppet.

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Phrases with puppeting

Questions about puppeting

What is puppeting the present participle of?
Puppeting is the present participle of puppet.

Words near puppeting in the dictionary

  1. puppeteer
  2. puppeteered
  3. puppeteering
  4. puppeteers
  5. puppethood
  6. puppeting
  7. puppetish
  8. puppetism
  9. puppetize
  10. puppetized
  11. puppetizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puppeting (page history and authors); puppet (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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