correcting

Saykuh-REKT-ing/kəˈɹɛktɪŋ/

Noun pluralcorrectings

2 meanings of correcting

1
verb
Present participle of correct. Use this form for something happening now or as an -ing noun.
The teacher is correcting our tests right now.
She spent the evening correcting her spelling mistakes.
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2
nouncountable or uncountable
The act of fixing something that is wrong.
The correcting of the test answers took all morning.
A lot of correcting was needed before the essay was clean.
Similarrevision, editing, amendment
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correcting is a form of correct

correct, verb: To fix something that has mistakes so it becomes right. Full entry

Forms: correctcorrects he/she/itcorrecting -ing formcorrected past tense, past participle
Spelling: correct → correcting: add -ing

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