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transcreating

transcreating is the present participle and gerund of transcreate.

Meaning of transcreate

Verb

transcreate (third-person singular simple present transcreates, present participle transcreating, simple past and past participle transcreated)

  1. To transfer the creative elements of a work into another culture or language.
    • At a guess, this is a later and more successful development from the earlier attempts to transcreate abstract Indian imagery into English1961, Writers Workshop (Calcutta, India), Writers Workshop, page 29

Questions about transcreating

What is transcreating the present participle and gerund of?
Transcreating is the present participle and gerund of transcreate.

Words near transcreating in the dictionary

  1. transcranially
  2. transcranic
  3. transcreate
  4. transcreated
  5. transcreates
  6. transcreating
  7. transcreation
  8. transcreations
  9. transcribability
  10. transcribable
  11. transcribble

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