wiredrawing
wiredrawing is the gerund of wiredraw.
wiredrawing is the present participle and gerund of wiredraw.
Meaning of wiredraw
Verb
wiredraw (third-person singular simple present wiredraws, present participle wiredrawing, simple past wiredrew, past participle wiredrawn)
- To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.
- To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.
- I am of opinion that the uncontrouled libertie, that all men have to wrest, dissipate, and wyredraw a word so religious and important, to so many severall idiomes, hath much more danger than profit following it., I.56
Forms of wiredrawing
| plural | wiredrawings |
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Origin of wiredrawing
From wiredraw + -ing.
Questions about wiredrawing
- What is wiredrawing the gerund of?
- Wiredrawing is the gerund of wiredraw.
Words near wiredrawing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wiredrawing (page history and authors); wiredraw (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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