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sizing down

sizing down is the present participle and gerund of size down.

Meaning of size down

Verb

size down (third-person singular simple present sizes down, present participle sizing down, simple past and past participle sized down)

  1. To wear a smaller size of clothing.
    • If your shirt is baggy, you can size down .
  2. (dated, transitive) To consider thoroughly so as to form an opinion of; to size up.
    • "So I sized you down, and I'm bound to say that you came well out of it."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Questions about sizing down

What is sizing down the present participle and gerund of?
Sizing down is the present participle and gerund of size down.

Words near sizing down in the dictionary

  1. sizey
  2. Sizhou
  3. sizhu
  4. siziness
  5. sizing
  6. sizing down
  7. sizing up
  8. sizings
  9. sizism
  10. sizist
  11. sizists

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