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toweling off

toweling off is the present participle and gerund of towel off.

Meaning of towel off

Verb

towel off (third-person singular simple present towels off, present participle (US) toweling off or (UK) towelling off, simple past and past participle (US) toweled off or (UK) towelled off)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To dry (oneself or another person or thing) completely, using a towel.
    • Once I towel off, I'll go back inside and get started.
    Synonyms:
    towel down

Questions about toweling off

What is toweling off the present participle and gerund of?
Toweling off is the present participle and gerund of towel off.

Words near toweling off in the dictionary

  1. towelhead
  2. towelheaded
  3. towelheads
  4. toweling
  5. toweling down
  6. toweling off
  7. toweling up
  8. towelings
  9. Towell
  10. towelled
  11. towelled down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toweling off (page history and authors); towel off (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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