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safing

safing is the present participle and gerund of safe.

Meaning of safe

Verb

safe (third-person singular simple present safes, present participle safing, simple past and past participle safed)

  1. (transitive) To make something safe.
    • “It just trails behind the pylon until I land, then Cramer removes it when he safes the rocket pods. No evidence of anything when I taxi back inside the compound.”2007, Rocky Raab, Mike Five Eight: Air War Over Cambodia: Air War Over Cambodia

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Noun

safing (uncountable)

  1. The process of (a spacecraft) entering safe mode.

Questions about safing

What does safing mean?
Safing means the process of (a spacecraft) entering safe mode.
What is safing the present participle and gerund of?
Safing is the present participle and gerund of safe.
What part of speech is safing?
Safing is a noun.

Words near safing in the dictionary

  1. Saffy
  2. Safi
  3. Safin
  4. Safina
  5. safinamide
  6. safing
  7. safingol
  8. Safire
  9. Safis
  10. Safley
  11. Safleys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: safing (page history and authors); safe (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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