cultivating
- 1Present participle and gerund of cultivate.
Cultivating strong relationships with suppliers helped the company weather the shortage.
These villages have been cultivating rice in the river valleys for centuries.
Note
One spelling does two grammatical jobs, and the final e of cultivate drops before -ing to make it. In a progressive tense it is a verb (they have been cultivating rice). As a gerund it works as a noun yet still takes an object (cultivating good habits takes patience). Either role carries every meaning of cultivate: raising crops, working the soil, and the figurative fostering of a skill, friendship or reputation.
cultivating is a form of cultivate
cultivate, verb: To grow plants, particularly crops, by preparing the land and tending them as they develop. Full entry
- Forms
- cultivatecultivates he/she/itcultivating -ing formcultivated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- cultivate → cultivating: drop the e, add -ing
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