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tawning

tawning is the present participle and gerund of tawn.

Meaning of tawn

Verb

tawn (third-person singular simple present tawns, present participle tawning, simple past and past participle tawned)

  1. (transitive) To tan, make tawny.

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Questions about tawning

What is tawning the present participle and gerund of?
Tawning is the present participle and gerund of tawn.

Words near tawning in the dictionary

  1. tawnier
  2. tawnies
  3. tawniest
  4. tawnily
  5. tawniness
  6. tawning
  7. Tawnja
  8. tawns
  9. tawny
  10. tawny coster
  11. tawny costers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tawning (page history and authors); tawn (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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