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substancing

substancing is the present participle and gerund of substance.

Meaning of substance

Verb

substance (third-person singular simple present substances, present participle substancing, simple past and past participle substanced)

  1. (rare, transitive) To give substance to; to make real or substantial.
    • If life were nothing but what gets phrased and substanced, the world might as well be rolled up and laid away again in darkness.1873, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, The Other Girls, page 335

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Questions about substancing

What is substancing the present participle and gerund of?
Substancing is the present participle and gerund of substance.

Words near substancing in the dictionary

  1. substanceless
  2. substancelessness
  3. substanceness
  4. substances
  5. substancial
  6. substancing
  7. substandard
  8. substandardly
  9. substandardness
  10. substant
  11. substantia innominata

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Adapted from Wiktionary: substancing (page history and authors); substance (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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