injecting
- 1Present participle and gerund of inject.
The technician was injecting dye into the sample before the scan.
Injecting fuel directly into the cylinder improves engine efficiency.
Note
One form does two jobs, and the job decides the grammar. After a form of be it is a verb in progress and usually takes an object: injecting dye, injecting code into a running program. Without an object it carries the drug-taking sense, as in people who are injecting. As a gerund it heads a noun phrase and keeps its object directly. You write injecting fuel, not injecting of fuel.
Outreach workers offer clean needles to people who are injecting.
She stopped injecting once the new treatment began.
injecting is a form of inject
inject, verb: To administer a dose of medicine or drugs to someone or something using a needle and syringe. Full entry
- Spelling
- inject → injecting: add -ing
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