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scaling off

scaling off is the present participle and gerund of scale off.

Meaning of scale off

Verb

scale off (third-person singular simple present scales off, present participle scaling off, simple past and past participle scaled off)

  1. To peel off
    • Perhaps the surface of the red brick, long unpainted, had scaled off a little more here and there.1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars

Questions about scaling off

What is scaling off the present participle and gerund of?
Scaling off is the present participle and gerund of scale off.

Words near scaling off in the dictionary

  1. scaling back
  2. scaling down
  3. scaling in
  4. scaling ladder
  5. scaling ladders
  6. scaling off
  7. scaling out
  8. scaling up
  9. scalings
  10. scaliola
  11. Scalis

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