vacuuming

vacuuming is the present participle and gerund of vacuum.

Noun

vacuuming (plural vacuumings)

An instance of vacuuming.
(in plural) Material sucked up by a vacuum cleaner.
- Put the vacuumings in the bin.
Synonym of vacuum exercise.

Synonyms:

vacuum exercise

vacuum (third-person singular simple present vacuums, present participle vacuuming, simple past and past participle vacuumed)

(transitive) To clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.
- “Who in the world cleans an attic? That's like vacuuming a shed.”2016, Janice M. Whiteaker, Run
Synonyms:

hoover
(intransitive) To use a vacuum cleaner.

Synonyms:

to do the hoovering, to hoover
(transitive) To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.
- But the advantage of an auto-vacuumed database is that when B-tree pages are no longer needed, they are moved to the end of the database file and then the database file is truncated, thus returning the unused pages back to the filesystem.2010, Ivan Litovski, Richard Maynard, Inside Symbian SQL: A Mobile Developer's Guide to SQLite, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 337

plural	vacuumings

What does vacuuming mean?: Vacuuming means an instance of vacuuming.
What is vacuuming the present participle and gerund of?: Vacuuming is the present participle and gerund of vacuum.
What part of speech is vacuuming?: Vacuuming is a noun.
What is the plural of vacuuming?: The plural of vacuuming is vacuumings.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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