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upfloating

upfloating is the present participle and gerund of upfloat.

Meaning of upfloat

Verb

upfloat (third-person singular simple present upfloats, present participle upfloating, simple past and past participle upfloated)

  1. (intransitive, poetic) To float upward.
    • The Robin whistles, gossamers upfloat1881, Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, Sonnets at the English Lakes, page 26

Questions about upfloating

What is upfloating the present participle and gerund of?
Upfloating is the present participle and gerund of upfloat.

Words near upfloating in the dictionary

  1. upfling
  2. upflinging
  3. upflings
  4. upfloat
  5. upfloated
  6. upfloating
  7. upfloats
  8. upflood
  9. upflooded
  10. upflooding
  11. upfloods

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upfloating (page history and authors); upfloat (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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