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whiplashing

whiplashing adjective: causing whiplash. Also the present participle and gerund of whiplash.

Adjective

whiplashing (comparative more whiplashing, superlative most whiplashing)

  1. Causing whiplash.
    • What's disappointing about all this doom and gloom is that the franchise has made the kind of whiplashing U-turn you might see in its car-chase sequences.2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2025

Also used as

whiplashing is also the present participle and gerund of whiplash.

Forms of whiplashing

comparativemore whiplashing
superlativemost whiplashing

Questions about whiplashing

What does whiplashing mean?
Whiplashing means causing whiplash.
What part of speech is whiplashing?
Whiplashing is an adjective.

Words near whiplashing in the dictionary

  1. Whipkey
  2. Whipkeys
  3. whiplash
  4. whiplashed
  5. whiplashes
  6. whiplashing
  7. whiplashlike
  8. whiplashy
  9. whipless
  10. whiplike
  11. whipline

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