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torrenting

torrenting is the present participle and gerund of torrent.

Meaning of torrent

Verb (1)

torrent (third-person singular simple present torrents, present participle torrenting, simple past and past participle torrented)

  1. To fall or flow in a torrent; to pour.
    • ... through the inflexible rain, each turn in the track revealed a new cascade, torrenting down the steep cliff of the hill. The weather was too wild for me to get to them. In good weather, they wouldn't exist.2016 January 28, Anna Pavord, Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 63

Verb (2)

torrent (third-person singular simple present torrents, present participle torrenting, simple past and past participle torrented)

  1. (Internet, transitive) To download in a torrent.
    • The video rental place didn't have the film I was after, but I managed to torrent it.

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Questions about torrenting

What is torrenting the present participle and gerund of?
Torrenting is the present participle and gerund of torrent.

Words near torrenting in the dictionary

  1. torrentfishes
  2. torrential
  3. torrentiality
  4. torrentially
  5. torrentine
  6. torrenting
  7. torrentless
  8. torrentlike
  9. torrents
  10. torrentuous
  11. torrentwise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: torrenting (page history and authors); torrent (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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