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tracting

tracting is the present participle and gerund of tract.

Meaning of tract

Verb (1)

tract (third-person singular simple present tracts, present participle tracting, simple past and past participle tracted)

  1. (obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
    • Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) To draw out; to protract.
    • Speak to me , muse , the man , who after Troy was sack'd , Saw many towns and men , and could their manners tract.1616, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Of The Art of Poetry”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, →OCLC

Verb (2)

tract (third-person singular simple present tracts, present participle tracting, simple past and past participle tracted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To treat, discourse, negotiate.

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Questions about tracting

What is tracting the present participle and gerund of?
Tracting is the present participle and gerund of tract.

Words near tracting in the dictionary

  1. tractella
  2. tractellum
  3. tracti
  4. tractile
  5. tractility
  6. tracting
  7. traction
  8. traction alopecia
  9. traction alopecias
  10. traction batteries
  11. traction battery

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