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syncopating

syncopating is the present participle and gerund of syncopate.

Meaning of syncopate

Verb

syncopate (third-person singular simple present syncopates, present participle syncopating, simple past and past participle syncopated)

  1. (transitive) to omit a vocalic or consonantal sound or a syllable from a word; to use syncope
  2. (transitive) to stress or accentuate the weak beat of a rhythm; to use syncopation

Questions about syncopating

What is syncopating the present participle and gerund of?
Syncopating is the present participle and gerund of syncopate.

Words near syncopating in the dictionary

  1. Syncoms
  2. syncopal
  3. syncopate
  4. syncopated
  5. syncopates
  6. syncopating
  7. syncopation
  8. syncopational
  9. syncopationally
  10. syncopations
  11. syncopative

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Adapted from Wiktionary: syncopating (page history and authors); syncopate (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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