describing
Saydi-SKRYB-ingUS · UK/dɪˈskɹaɪ̯bɪŋ/AUS/dɪˈskɹɑɪ̯bɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of describe.
The witness kept describing the same scene over and over.
Describing the storm accurately proved difficult for the reporters.
Note
A single -ing form does two jobs. After be it is a participle (she was describing the room). At the head of a phrase it is a gerund, a noun that still takes an object (Describing the storm proved difficult). It carries every use of the verb, including the geometer's, as when a moving point is describing a circle, and the biologist's, as in describing a new species to science.
describing is a form of describe
describe, verb: To represent a person, thing, or event in words; to give an account of what it is like. Full entry
- Spelling
- describe → describing: drop the e, add -ing
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