pancaking
- 1Present participle of pancake.
The upper stories were pancaking onto the lower ones as the weakened frame gave way.
Pancaking flat against the field, the small aircraft skidded to a stop.
Note
One spelling does two jobs. As a participle it builds the progressive (the floors were pancaking). As a gerund it names the event itself (the pancaking of the upper stories). It covers every sense of the verb: an aircraft dropping flat, a building collapsing floor onto floor, something flattened by force, even an animal sprawled out flat. Check for an object: pancaking a car is the transitive 'flatten' use, while a plane pancaking takes none.
The pancaking of the upper floors took only seconds.
The falling crane ended up pancaking two parked cars.
pancaking is a form of pancake
pancake, verb: To crush something flat with sudden, violent force. Full entry
- Spelling
- pancake → pancaking: drop the e, add -ing
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