exiling
- 1Present participle and gerund of exile.
The council spent hours debating whether exiling the disgraced general was just.
By exiling its loudest critics, the regime silenced nearly all opposition.
Note
One spelling does two jobs here: the participle of a progressive or adverbial clause (they were exiling dissidents) and the gerund that heads a noun phrase (exiling the general was unjust). Because exile is a transitive verb, both uses normally take a direct object right after them. The silent final e drops before -ing, as with smile and smiling. Though exile is also a noun, this form belongs only to the verb.
exiling is a form of exile
exile, verb: To send someone or something into banishment from their home or country. Full entry
- Spelling
- exile → exiling: drop the e, add -ing
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