objecting
- 1Present participle and gerund of object.
The defense attorney was objecting before the witness even finished speaking.
Objecting to the proposal on principle, several members walked out of the room.
Note
The -ing form does three jobs: a progressive verb (was objecting), a gerund naming the act (her objecting delayed the vote), and an adjective that can be graded: more objecting, most objecting. In current use the verb is intransitive and takes to: objecting to the proposal. An older transitive use, now obsolete, let a speaker object a charge or reproach directly, with no preposition.
objecting is a form of object
object, verb: To express disagreement with or opposition to something or someone, especially by raising a formal objection in court. Full entry
- Spelling
- object → objecting: add -ing
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