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wheelchairing

wheelchairing is the present participle and gerund of wheelchair.

Meaning of wheelchair

Verb

wheelchair (third-person singular simple present wheelchairs, present participle wheelchairing, simple past and past participle wheelchaired)

  1. (intransitive, sometimes, transitive) To move using a wheelchair.
    • Almost all of them learned wheelchairing and all learned to manage to eat by themselves.1991, Gosta Blennow, Jaak Jaeken, Lars Martin Wiklund, “Neurological Findings in the Carbohydrate-deficient Glycoprotein Syndrome”, in Acta Paediatrica, volume 80, number s375, →DOI, →ISSN, pages...

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Questions about wheelchairing

What is wheelchairing the present participle and gerund of?
Wheelchairing is the present participle and gerund of wheelchair.

Words near wheelchairing in the dictionary

  1. wheelchair-bound
  2. wheelchair-user
  3. wheelchair-users
  4. wheelchairbound
  5. wheelchaired
  6. wheelchairing
  7. wheelchairs
  8. wheelclamping
  9. wheelcraft
  10. Wheeldon
  11. Wheeldons

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