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recentering

recentering is the present participle and gerund of recenter.

Meaning of recenter

Verb

recenter (third-person singular simple present recenters, present participle recentering, simple past and past participle recentered)

  1. (transitive) To center (something) again.
    • Now I recenter my immortal mind / In the deep sabbath of meek self-content; / Cleans'd from the vaporous passions that bedim / God's Image, sister of the Seraphim.1796 December 24–26 (date written), S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Ode on the Departing Year”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, […], published 1817, →OCLC, stanza IX...

Questions about recentering

What is recentering the present participle and gerund of?
Recentering is the present participle and gerund of recenter.

Words near recentering in the dictionary

  1. recensuses
  2. recensusing
  3. recent
  4. recenter
  5. recentered
  6. recentering
  7. recenters
  8. recentest
  9. recentish
  10. recentism
  11. recently

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