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sunscreening

sunscreening is the present participle and gerund of sunscreen.

Meaning of sunscreen

Verb

sunscreen (third-person singular simple present sunscreens, present participle sunscreening, simple past and past participle sunscreened)

  1. (transitive) To apply sunscreen to (someone).
    • He glanced over his shoulder as I sunscreened his back.2007, Nicole Williams, Tortured

See all 2 meanings of sunscreen

Adjective

sunscreening (not comparable)

  1. Serving to block the sun's rays.

Origin of sunscreening

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

From sun + screening.

Questions about sunscreening

What does sunscreening mean?
Sunscreening means serving to block the sun's rays.
What is sunscreening the present participle and gerund of?
Sunscreening is the present participle and gerund of sunscreen.
What part of speech is sunscreening?
Sunscreening is an adjective.

Words near sunscreening in the dictionary

  1. sunscalded
  2. sunscalding
  3. sunscalds
  4. sunscreen
  5. sunscreened
  6. sunscreening
  7. sunscreens
  8. Sunscrit
  9. sunseed
  10. sunseeds
  11. sunseeker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sunscreening (page history and authors); sunscreen (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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