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vacuum-cleaning

vacuum-cleaning is the present participle and gerund of vacuum-clean.

Meaning of vacuum-clean

Verb

vacuum-clean (third-person singular simple present vacuum-cleans, present participle vacuum-cleaning, simple past and past participle vacuum-cleaned)

  1. (transitive) To clean with a vacuum cleaner.
    Synonyms:
    hoover, vacuum

Questions about vacuum-cleaning

What is vacuum-cleaning the present participle and gerund of?
Vacuum-cleaning is the present participle and gerund of vacuum-clean.

Words near vacuum-cleaning in the dictionary

  1. vacuum workouts
  2. vacuum-clean
  3. vacuum-cleaned
  4. vacuum-cleaner
  5. vacuum-cleaners
  6. vacuum-cleaning
  7. vacuum-cleans
  8. vacuum-pack
  9. vacuum-packed
  10. vacuum-packing
  11. vacuum-packs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vacuum-cleaning (page history and authors); vacuum-clean (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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