sunning
sunning is the present participle and gerund of sun.
Meaning of sun
Verb
sun (third-person singular simple present suns, present participle sunning, simple past and past participle sunned)
- To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun.
- Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.
- Synonyms:
- apricate
- To warm or dry in the sunshine.
- To be exposed to the sun.
- To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
Phrases with sunning
Questions about sunning
- What is sunning the present participle and gerund of?
- Sunning is the present participle and gerund of sun.
Words near sunning in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sunning (page history and authors); sun (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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