erroring
USER-uh-ring/ˈɛɹ.əɹ.ɪŋ/UKAIR-uh-ing/ˈɛɹ.ə(ɹ).ɪŋ/
- 1Present participle of error.
The payment system kept erroring during the holiday rush.
The script is erroring out before it finishes loading the data.
Note
A machine's verb more than a person's: what is erroring is usually software or a system that fails, often with an error message on the screen (the upload keeps erroring). Said of people, it stands in for err, and that use is nonstandard. To be safe, write that a judge is erring, not erroring. The form serves both in progressive tenses and as a verbal noun.
erroring is a form of error
error, verb: Of a program, system or signal, to fail or go wrong because of an error, often showing an error message (often with out). Full entry
- Spelling
- error → erroring: add -ing
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