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strawberrying

strawberrying is the present participle and gerund of strawberry.

Meaning of strawberry

Verb

strawberry (third-person singular simple present strawberries, present participle strawberrying, simple past and past participle strawberried)

  1. (intransitive) To gather strawberries.
    • We strawberried in Michigan woods with our fat nanny, and in spring we gathered sand dollars on Daytona, passed smiling into Kodachrome.1994, New England Review, volume 16, page 35
  2. (intransitive) To turn a dark pinkish-red.
    • My hips and elbows were strawberrying painfully.1986, Les Whitten, Sometimes a Hero, page 352

See all 16 meanings of strawberry

Questions about strawberrying

What is strawberrying the present participle and gerund of?
Strawberrying is the present participle and gerund of strawberry.

Words near strawberrying in the dictionary

  1. strawberry weevils
  2. strawberry wine
  3. strawberry wines
  4. strawberryade
  5. strawberryades
  6. strawberrying
  7. strawberryish
  8. strawberryless
  9. strawberrylike
  10. strawboard
  11. strawboards

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