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remounting

remounting is the present participle and gerund of remount.

Meaning of remount

Verb

remount (third-person singular simple present remounts, present participle remounting, simple past and past participle remounted)

  1. (intransitive) To go up again; to rise another time.
    • They remounted together to their sitting-room while Sir Claude, who said he would join them later, remained below to smoke and to converse with the old acquaintances that he met wherever he turned.1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew
  2. (transitive) To help (someone) back on a horse.
  3. (intransitive) To get back on a horse, bicycle etc.
    • And, as it fell, his steed he ready found; / On whom remounting fiercely forth he rode […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  4. (transitive) To get back on (an animal, vehicle) again.
    • Still agitated, she watched resentfully as two traffic policemen remounted their motorcycles.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 378
  5. (transitive) To ascend (something) again.
  6. (transitive) To fix (something) back into position.

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Noun

remounting (plural remountings)

  1. The act of mounting something again.

Forms of remounting

pluralremountings

Questions about remounting

What does remounting mean?
Remounting means the act of mounting something again.
What is remounting the present participle and gerund of?
Remounting is the present participle and gerund of remount.
What part of speech is remounting?
Remounting is a noun.
What is the plural of remounting?
The plural of remounting is remountings.

Words near remounting in the dictionary

  1. remounding
  2. remounds
  3. remount
  4. remountable
  5. remounted
  6. remounting
  7. remountings
  8. remounts
  9. remourn
  10. remourned
  11. remourning

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