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Rogeting

Rogeting is the present participle and gerund of Roget.

Meaning of Roget

Verb

Roget (third-person singular simple present Rogets, present participle Rogeting, simple past and past participle Rogeted)

  1. (nonstandard) To use a thesaurus; to look for synonyms; to suggest synonyms.
    • In fact many times we can hear the clatter of the thesaurus Rogeting to the rescue.1931, Joseph Daly, Mencken and Einstein look at religion, page 6
  2. (nonstandard) To use or to mention synonyms; (often) to replace words in a text with synonyms in order to disguise plagiarism.
    • Mr Sadler added that he had “seen quite a bit” of “Roget-ing”, which he described as “disguising plagiarism by substituting synonyms, one word at a time with no attempt to understand either the source or target text”.2014 August 7, Jack Grove, “Sinister buttocks? Roget would blush at the crafty cheek”, in Times Higher Education

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Questions about Rogeting

What is Rogeting the present participle and gerund of?
Rogeting is the present participle and gerund of Roget.

Words near Rogeting in the dictionary

  1. roges
  2. Roget
  3. Roget's
  4. Rogeted
  5. Rogetian
  6. Rogeting
  7. Rogetism
  8. Rogetisms
  9. Rogets
  10. roggan
  11. roggans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Rogeting (page history and authors); Roget (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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