sidelining
sidelining is the present participle and gerund of sideline.
Noun
sidelining (countable and uncountable, plural sidelinings)
- Material added at the side or in the margin, as in a book.
- The act of pushing something aside; marginalization.
Meaning of sideline
Verb
sideline (third-person singular simple present sidelines, present participle sidelining, simple past and past participle sidelined)
- To place on the sidelines; to bench or to keep someone out of play.
- The coach sidelined the player until he regained his strength.
- To remove or keep out of circulation or out of the focus.
- The illness sidelined him for weeks.
Forms of sidelining
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Questions about sidelining
- What does sidelining mean?
- Sidelining means material added at the side or in the margin, as in a book.
- What is sidelining the present participle and gerund of?
- Sidelining is the present participle and gerund of sideline.
- What part of speech is sidelining?
- Sidelining is a noun.
- What is the plural of sidelining?
- The plural of sidelining is sidelinings.
Words near sidelining in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sidelining (page history and authors); sideline (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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