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superadding

superadding is the present participle and gerund of superadd.

Meaning of superadd

Verb

superadd (third-person singular simple present superadds, present participle superadding, simple past and past participle superadded)

  1. (transitive) To add on top of a previous addition.
    • To our antiquarian interest in poor Jocelin and his Convent, where the whole aspect of existence, the whole dialect, of thought, of speech, of activity, is so obsolete, strange, long-vanished, there now superadds itself a mild glow of human interest for Abbot Samson […]1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Abbot Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)

Questions about superadding

What is superadding the present participle and gerund of?
Superadding is the present participle and gerund of superadd.

Words near superadding in the dictionary

  1. superacuteness
  2. superadaptable
  3. superadd
  4. superadded
  5. superaddedly
  6. superadding
  7. superaddition
  8. superadditional
  9. superadditions
  10. superadditive
  11. superadditively

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