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spray painting

spray painting is the present participle and gerund of spray paint.

Meaning of spray paint

Verb

spray paint (third-person singular simple present spray paints, present participle spray painting, simple past and past participle spray painted)

  1. To apply paint in the form of a spray, especially from an aerosol can.
    • Dopeness is not a catchprase to be memed on Twitter, tatted on a forearm, or spray painted on a city block.2022 October 18, Charity C. Elder, “Preface: A Black Woman’s Gaze”, in Power: The Rise of Black Women in America, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN

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Questions about spray painting

What is spray painting the present participle and gerund of?
Spray painting is the present participle and gerund of spray paint.

Words near spray painting in the dictionary

  1. spray foams
  2. spray gun
  3. spray guns
  4. spray paint
  5. spray painted
  6. spray painting
  7. spray paints
  8. spray tan
  9. spray tanning
  10. spray tans
  11. spray-dried

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