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therapping

therapping is the present participle and gerund of therap.

Meaning of therap

Verb

therap (third-person singular simple present theraps, present participle therapping, simple past and past participle therapped)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) To administer therapy.
    • But the real problems of life, the insoluble ones of death and pain, illness, and the irreversibility of time and of old age and the like are all insoluble and cannot be therapped away.1962, Abraham Harold Maslow, Summer Notes on Social Psychology of Industry and Management at Non-Linear Systems, Inc., Del Mar, California, page 40

Questions about therapping

What is therapping the present participle and gerund of?
Therapping is the present participle and gerund of therap.

Words near therapping in the dictionary

  1. therapizing
  2. therapod
  3. theraponid
  4. theraponids
  5. therapped
  6. therapping
  7. theraps
  8. therapsid
  9. therapsids
  10. theraputical
  11. therapy

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