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vandalising

vandalising is the present participle and gerund of vandalise.

Meaning of vandalise

Verb

vandalise (third-person singular simple present vandalises, present participle vandalising, simple past and past participle vandalised)

  1. To needlessly destroy or deface other people’s property or public property; to commit vandalism.
    • Unfortunately, one side of the new five-car train is daubed in graffiti, having been vandalised in Wembley Yard, en route from Switzerland.2023 March 8, “Network News: First Tyne & Wear Metro '555' already 'tagged'”, in RAIL, number 978, page 9

Questions about vandalising

What is vandalising the present participle and gerund of?
Vandalising is the present participle and gerund of vandalise.

Words near vandalising in the dictionary

  1. vandalised
  2. vandaliser
  3. vandalisers
  4. vandalises
  5. vandalish
  6. vandalising
  7. vandalism
  8. vandalisms
  9. vandalist
  10. vandalistic
  11. vandalistically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vandalising (page history and authors); vandalise (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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