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radiuming

radiuming is the present participle and gerund of radium.

Meaning of radium

Verb

radium (third-person singular simple present radiums, present participle radiuming, simple past and past participle radiumed)

  1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To treat (a tumour, etc.) with radium.
    • We want popular verbs for several operations introduced by modern science. The X-rays, the Finsen treatment for lupus, the operation of radium for cancer, and what not—what are the words for these? A man is guillotined or hanged; his leg is amputated; he is trepanned. What is it when he is rayed...1904 June, “Verbs Needed”, in A. H. McQuilkin, editor, The Inland Printer: The Leading Trade Journal of the World in the Printing and Allied Industries, volume XXXIII, number 3, Chicago, Ill.: The...
    Synonyms:
    radiumize

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Questions about radiuming

What is radiuming the present participle and gerund of?
Radiuming is the present participle and gerund of radium.

Words near radiuming in the dictionary

  1. Radium Girl
  2. Radium Girls
  3. radium hydroxide
  4. radium jaw
  5. radiumed
  6. radiuming
  7. radiumization
  8. radiumize
  9. radiumized
  10. radiumizer
  11. radiumizers

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