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sleaving

sleaving is the present participle and gerund of sleave.

Meaning of sleave

Verb

sleave (third-person singular simple present sleaves, present participle sleaving, simple past and past participle sleaved)

  1. To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads.
    Synonyms:
    sley

See all 3 meanings of sleave

Questions about sleaving

What is sleaving the present participle and gerund of?
Sleaving is the present participle and gerund of sleave.

Words near sleaving in the dictionary

  1. sleans
  2. Sleat
  3. sleave
  4. sleaved
  5. sleaves
  6. sleaving
  7. sleaze
  8. sleaze bucket
  9. sleaze buckets
  10. sleaze factor
  11. sleaze factors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sleaving (page history and authors); sleave (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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