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repaving

repaving is the present participle and gerund of repave.

Meaning of repave

Verb

repave (third-person singular simple present repaves, present participle repaving, simple past and past participle repaved)

  1. (transitive) To pave over again.
    • Work includes painting, and repaving platforms, at Upwey and Weymouth.2021 November 3, “Network News: Weymouth-Bristol shuts for 16 days”, in RAIL, number 943, page 20

Noun

repaving (plural repavings)

  1. The process of replacing paving.
    • The street has had three repavings in a decade.
    • Road diets are now an almost automatic part of the process in Kansas City whenever a street is up for repaving.2025 April 21, Jeff McMurray, “Trump’s transportation officials buck a long-held practice of using ‘road diets’ to slow speeders”, in AP News

Forms of repaving

pluralrepavings

Questions about repaving

What does repaving mean?
Repaving means the process of replacing paving.
What is repaving the present participle and gerund of?
Repaving is the present participle and gerund of repave.
What part of speech is repaving?
Repaving is a noun.
What is the plural of repaving?
The plural of repaving is repavings.

Words near repaving in the dictionary

  1. repave
  2. repaved
  3. repaver
  4. repavers
  5. repaves
  6. repaving
  7. repavings
  8. repawn
  9. repawned
  10. repawning
  11. repawns

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