deliberating
Saydi-LIB-uh-ray-ting/dɪˈlɪbəɹeɪtɪŋ/
- 1Present participle of deliberate.
The committee is deliberating behind closed doors.
After deliberating for hours, they finally agreed on a plan.
Note
Only the verb stands behind this form. The adjective deliberate, meaning intentional or unhurried, shares its spelling but has no -ing form. The verb works two ways: transitively, with the matter weighed as its object (deliberating the terms), or intransitively, with no object at all (the jury is still deliberating). As a gerund it fills noun slots, as in after hours of deliberating.
deliberating is a form of deliberate
deliberate, verb: To consider something carefully, weighing the matter well in the mind before reaching a decision. Full entry
- Forms
- deliberatedeliberates he/she/itdeliberating -ing formdeliberated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- deliberate → deliberating: drop the e, add -ing
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