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redecorating

redecorating is the present participle and gerund of redecorate.

Meaning of redecorate

Verb

redecorate (third-person singular simple present redecorates, present participle redecorating, simple past and past participle redecorated)

  1. (transitive) To change the appearance of a place by altering the decor.
    • Yeah, she said you had been helping her redecorate, that you had been to Parke Bernet, picking out a bureau.1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Sunday (Hector Elizondo)
  2. (transitive) To refurbish.

Questions about redecorating

What is redecorating the present participle and gerund of?
Redecorating is the present participle and gerund of redecorate.

Words near redecorating in the dictionary

  1. redeconvolves
  2. redeconvolving
  3. redecorate
  4. redecorated
  5. redecorates
  6. redecorating
  7. redecoration
  8. redecorations
  9. redecorator
  10. redecorators
  11. redecos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: redecorating (page history and authors); redecorate (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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