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working through

working through is the present participle and gerund of work through.

Meaning of work through

Verb

work through (third-person singular simple present works through, present participle working through, simple past and past participle worked through)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, through.
    • The students dutifully worked through two pages of algebra problems.
  2. To get past a difficult or stressful situation by thinking or talking about it.

Questions about working through

What is working through the present participle and gerund of?
Working through is the present participle and gerund of work through.

Words near working through in the dictionary

  1. working the line
  2. working the oracle
  3. working the refs
  4. working the room
  5. working the system
  6. working through
  7. working time
  8. working times
  9. working timetable
  10. working timetables
  11. working title

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Adapted from Wiktionary: working through (page history and authors); work through (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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