resuming
- 1Present participle of resume.
The committee is resuming talks after a two-week pause.
Resuming the marathon, she pushed through the pain in her legs.
Note
An -ing form that does double duty. After a form of be it is a progressive participle (the committee is resuming talks); as a gerund it fills noun slots (after resuming work). It works with or without an object: someone can be resuming a meeting, or the meeting itself can be resuming. Its older meanings, taking something back and summarizing, are archaic, so today it almost always means picking up where things paused.
resuming is a form of resume
resume, verb: To begin something again, from the point at which it was stopped or paused, and carry it on. Full entry
- Spelling
- resume → resuming: drop the e, add -ing
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