blonding
- 1Present participle and gerund of blond.
The colorist recommended blonding the ends gradually to avoid breakage.
He kept blonding small sections of his beard until the color matched.
Note
One spelling serves two verbs here: blond and blonde both drop any final e before -ing, so they meet in blonding. The verb is transitive, since you blond something, and the form keeps its object in both of its uses. As a participle it follows a form of be (she is blonding the ends). As a gerund it names the act (blonding the ends gradually avoids breakage).
- 2Present participle and gerund of blonde.
The bridal package included blonding her hair the week before the ceremony.
Her stylist was blonding the lengths while a colleague trimmed her bangs.
Note
Here the -e spelling is only a variant. As a verb, blonde is an alternative form of blond, so it shares the plain blond verb's transitive pattern and its single -ing spelling. The habit of keeping blonde for women belongs mainly to the noun. Nothing in blonding itself shows which spelling a writer had in mind.
blonding is a form of blond
blond, verb: To color or dye something a pale golden shade. Full entry
- Spelling
- blond → blonding: add -ing
blonding is a form of blonde
- Spelling
- blonde → blonding: drop the e, add -ing
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