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testing someone's patience

testing someone's patience is the present participle and gerund of test someone's patience.

Meaning of test someone's patience

Verb

test someone's patience (third-person singular simple present tests someone's patience, present participle testing someone's patience, simple past and past participle tested someone's patience)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To begin to frustrate someone.
    • These frequent Internet outages are testing my patience.

Questions about testing someone's patience

What is testing someone's patience the present participle and gerund of?
Testing someone's patience is the present participle and gerund of test someone's patience.

Words near testing someone's patience in the dictionary

  1. testing clauses
  2. testing effect
  3. testing effects
  4. testing ground
  5. testing out
  6. testing someone's patience
  7. testing testing
  8. testing the water
  9. testing the waters
  10. testing, testing
  11. testingly

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