backdropping
SayBAK-drop-ingUS/ˈbæk.dɹɑp.ɪŋ/UK/ˈbæk.dɹɒp.ɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of backdrop.
Fireworks lit up the sky, with the city skyline backdropping the show.
The film crew spent hours backdropping each scene with hand-painted canvas.
Note
The -ing form of a transitive verb, so it needs an object. The background itself is the subject, and the thing it sets off is the object, as in peaks backdropping a valley. The final p doubles before -ing, as in drop and dropping. After a form of be it builds the progressive. Heading a phrase, it works as a verbal noun: backdropping a scene takes hours.
backdropping is a form of backdrop
backdrop, verb: To form or serve as the background or setting for something seen or happening. Full entry
- Forms
- backdropbackdrops he/she/itbackdropping -ing formbackdropped past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- backdrop → backdropping: double the p, add -ing
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