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rear-ending

rear-ending is the present participle and gerund of rear-end.

Meaning of rear-end

Verb

rear-end (third-person singular simple present rear-ends, present participle rear-ending, simple past and past participle rear-ended)

  1. (transitive) Of a vehicle, to strike (another vehicle) from behind.

Questions about rear-ending

What is rear-ending the present participle and gerund of?
Rear-ending is the present participle and gerund of rear-end.

Words near rear-ending in the dictionary

  1. rear'd
  2. rear-end
  3. rear-ended
  4. rear-ender
  5. rear-enders
  6. rear-ending
  7. rear-ends
  8. rear-fanged
  9. rear-guard
  10. rear-horse
  11. rear-horses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rear-ending (page history and authors); rear-end (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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