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tiptoeing

tiptoeing is the present participle and gerund of tiptoe.

Meaning of tiptoe

Verb

tiptoe (third-person singular simple present tiptoes, present participle tiptoeing, simple past and past participle tiptoed)

  1. (intransitive) To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.
    • We went tip-toeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter II, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 8
    Synonyms:
    tip

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Phrases with tiptoeing

Questions about tiptoeing

What is tiptoeing the present participle and gerund of?
Tiptoeing is the present participle and gerund of tiptoe.

Words near tiptoeing in the dictionary

  1. tiptoe around
  2. tiptoe through a minefield
  3. tiptoed
  4. tiptoed around
  5. tiptoed through a minefield
  6. tiptoeing
  7. tiptoeing around
  8. tiptoeing through a minefield
  9. tiptoeingly
  10. tiptoer
  11. tiptoers

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