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subspecifying

subspecifying is the present participle and gerund of subspecify.

Meaning of subspecify

Verb

subspecify (third-person singular simple present subspecifies, present participle subspecifying, simple past and past participle subspecified)

  1. (transitive) To specify further or more precisely.

Questions about subspecifying

What is subspecifying the present participle and gerund of?
Subspecifying is the present participle and gerund of subspecify.

Words near subspecifying in the dictionary

  1. subspecifications
  2. subspecificity
  3. subspecified
  4. subspecifies
  5. subspecify
  6. subspecifying
  7. subspectra
  8. subspectral
  9. subspectrum
  10. subsphaerical
  11. subsphenoidal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subspecifying (page history and authors); subspecify (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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