microwaving
- 1Present participle and gerund of microwave.
He was microwaving a bag of popcorn when the lights flickered.
Microwaving vegetables can preserve more of their nutrients than boiling them.
Note
One -ing form, two jobs: after be it is a participle (she is microwaving the leftovers), and at the head of a clause it works as a noun naming the activity (microwaving rice takes minutes). Either way it usually takes a direct object, because the verb is transitive. The silent e of microwave drops before -ing. It can also carry the slang sense of preparing something only minimally, on the view that fuller preparation is unnecessary.
microwaving is a form of microwave
microwave, verb: To cook or warm food by placing it in a microwave oven. Full entry
- Forms
- microwavemicrowaves he/she/itmicrowaving -ing formmicrowaved past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- microwave → microwaving: drop the e, add -ing
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