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toothbrushing

toothbrushing is the present participle and gerund of toothbrush.

Meaning of toothbrush

Verb

toothbrush (third-person singular simple present toothbrushes, present participle toothbrushing, simple past and past participle toothbrushed)

  1. (transitive) To clean or scrub with a toothbrush.
    • In Rome, a restorer toothbrushed away some candle-grime over God's Sistine Chapel eye to reveal an eyebrow of Groucho Marx proportion.1997, Matthew Remski, Dying for Veronica

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Noun

toothbrushing (plural toothbrushings)

  1. An act of brushing the teeth.
    • Dentists recommend several toothbrushings per day.

Forms of toothbrushing

pluraltoothbrushings

Questions about toothbrushing

What does toothbrushing mean?
Toothbrushing means an act of brushing the teeth.
What is toothbrushing the present participle and gerund of?
Toothbrushing is the present participle and gerund of toothbrush.
What part of speech is toothbrushing?
Toothbrushing is a noun.
What is the plural of toothbrushing?
The plural of toothbrushing is toothbrushings.

Words near toothbrushing in the dictionary

  1. toothbrusher
  2. toothbrushers
  3. toothbrushes
  4. toothbrushful
  5. toothbrushfuls
  6. toothbrushing
  7. toothbrushings
  8. toothbrushless
  9. toothbrushy
  10. toothcare
  11. toothcarp

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toothbrushing (page history and authors); toothbrush (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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