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sweatering

sweatering is the present participle and gerund of sweater.

Meaning of sweater

Verb

sweater (third-person singular simple present sweaters, present participle sweatering, simple past and past participle sweatered)

  1. (transitive) To dress in a sweater.

See all 9 meanings of sweater

Noun

sweatering (uncountable)

  1. Material used to make sweaters.

Phrases with sweatering

Questions about sweatering

What does sweatering mean?
Sweatering means material used to make sweaters.
What is sweatering the present participle and gerund of?
Sweatering is the present participle and gerund of sweater.
What part of speech is sweatering?
Sweatering is a noun.

Words near sweatering in the dictionary

  1. sweater-dresses
  2. sweaterdress
  3. sweaterdresses
  4. sweatered
  5. sweatered up
  6. sweatering
  7. sweatering up
  8. sweaterless
  9. sweaterlike
  10. sweatermaker
  11. sweatermakers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sweatering (page history and authors); sweater (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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