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wastebasketing

wastebasketing is the present participle and gerund of wastebasket.

Meaning of wastebasket

Verb

wastebasket (third-person singular simple present wastebaskets, present participle wastebasketing, simple past and past participle wastebasketed)

  1. (transitive) To discard in a wastebasket.
    • I was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it.1924, Mark Twain, Autobiography

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Questions about wastebasketing

What is wastebasketing the present participle and gerund of?
Wastebasketing is the present participle and gerund of wastebasket.

Words near wastebasketing in the dictionary

  1. wasteable
  2. wastebasket
  3. wastebasket taxa
  4. wastebasket taxon
  5. wastebasketed
  6. wastebasketing
  7. wastebaskets
  8. wastebin
  9. wastebins
  10. wasteboard
  11. wasteboards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wastebasketing (page history and authors); wastebasket (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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