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radaring

radaring is the present participle and gerund of radar.

Meaning of radar

Verb

radar (third-person singular simple present radars, present participle radaring, simple past and past participle radared)

  1. (transitive) To use a radar apparatus (noun senses 1, 1.1, or 2) on (someone or something); to scan (someone or something) with, or as if with, radar.
    • This was no ordinary signal for help that Baby-John was radaring to outer space, but a call that had to be heeded, for he had just seen two hard guys go down for the final count— […]1961, Irving Shulman, chapter 8, in West Side Story: A Novelization […], New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, published November 1967, →ISBN, page 137

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Questions about radaring

What is radaring the present participle and gerund of?
Radaring is the present participle and gerund of radar.

Words near radaring in the dictionary

  1. radar trap
  2. radar traps
  3. radared
  4. radargram
  5. radargrams
  6. radaring
  7. radarkymogram
  8. radarkymograms
  9. radarkymographic
  10. radarkymography
  11. radarless

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