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smalling

smalling is the present participle and gerund of small.

Meaning of small

Verb

small (third-person singular simple present smalls, present participle smalling, simple past and past participle smalled)

  1. (noun-from-verb, obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
  2. (intransitive, noun-from-verb) To become small; to dwindle.
    • And smalled till she was nought at all.1917, Thomas Hardy, The Clock of the Years

See all 21 meanings of small

Proper noun capitalized: Smalling

Smalling

  1. A surname.

Questions about smalling

What does smalling mean?
Smalling means a surname.
What is smalling the present participle and gerund of?
Smalling is the present participle and gerund of small.
What part of speech is smalling?
Smalling is a proper noun.

Words near smalling in the dictionary

  1. smallies
  2. smallified
  3. smallifies
  4. smallify
  5. smallifying
  6. smalling
  7. Smallingerland
  8. smallish
  9. smallishness
  10. Smallman
  11. Smallman clip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smalling (page history and authors); Smalling (page history and authors); small (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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