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swiddening

swiddening is the present participle and gerund of swidden.

Meaning of swidden

Verb

swidden (third-person singular simple present swiddens, present participle swiddening, simple past and past participle swiddened)

  1. To clear an area of land by cutting and burning.
    • The reason, Scott says, is that swiddening provides a freedom that fixed agriculture does not.2009 February 13, Drake Bennett, quoting James Scott, “The mystery of Zomia”, in The Boston Globe, Boston

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Questions about swiddening

What is swiddening the present participle and gerund of?
Swiddening is the present participle and gerund of swidden.

Words near swiddening in the dictionary

  1. swicy
  2. swidden
  3. swiddened
  4. swiddener
  5. swiddeners
  6. swiddening
  7. swiddens
  8. Swider
  9. Swiders
  10. Swiderski
  11. Swiderskis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swiddening (page history and authors); swidden (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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