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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)

  1. (transitive) To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun.
    • Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.
    Synonyms:
    apricate
  2. (transitive) To warm or dry in the sunshine.
  3. (intransitive) To be exposed to the sun.
  4. (intransitive) To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.

See all 19 meanings of sun

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

  1. Sunnights
  2. Sunniism
  3. sunnily
  4. sunniness
  5. sunninesses
  6. sunning
  7. sunning up
  8. Sunningdale
  9. Sunninghill
  10. Sunninghill and Ascot
  11. Sunniphobia

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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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