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whiting out

whiting out is the present participle and gerund of white out.

Meaning of white out

Verb

white out (third-person singular simple present whites out, present participle whiting out, simple past and past participle whited out)

  1. (transitive) To hide an error or other material on a surface by covering it with correcting fluid.
  2. (obsolete) To space out a composition for printing.

Questions about whiting out

What is whiting out the present participle and gerund of?
Whiting out is the present participle and gerund of white out.

Words near whiting out in the dictionary

  1. whitina
  2. whitinas
  3. whiting
  4. whiting event
  5. whiting events
  6. whiting out
  7. whiting up
  8. whiting-mop
  9. whiting-mops
  10. whiting-time
  11. whitings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whiting out (page history and authors); white out (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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