distributing
- 1Present participle and gerund of distribute.
The charity spent the week distributing blankets to shelters across the city.
Distributing the inheritance fairly caused tension among the siblings.
Note
One -ing form does two jobs. After a form of be it builds the progressive (they were distributing leaflets); at the head of a phrase it works as a noun (distributing the inheritance caused tension). Either way it keeps the verb's grip on a direct object, because distribute is transitive in every use, from dispensing portions to supplying shops to sorting things into classes. The final e of distribute drops before -ing.
distributing is a form of distribute
distribute, verb: To divide something into portions and hand the portions out to recipients. Full entry
- Forms
- distributedistributes he/she/itdistributing -ing formdistributed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- distribute → distributing: drop the e, add -ing
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