graduating
- 1Present participle and gerund of graduate.
He is graduating with honors this year.
Graduating from medical school took her eight years of hard work.
Note
The construction to watch is who does the graduating, and with what preposition. Students are graduating from a school, and a school is graduating its students. Dropping the from, as in graduating college, is proscribed, so keep it out of careful writing. The same form also serves the older technical sense of marking something off in degrees, as when an instrument maker is graduating a thermometer's scale.
The university is graduating its largest class ever this spring.
The technician is graduating the scale in tenths of a degree.
graduating is a form of graduate
graduate, verb: To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements for a degree. Full entry
- Spelling
- graduate → graduating: drop the e, add -ing
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