rocketing
- 1Present participle of rocket.
Housing costs have been rocketing across the region for two years.
We watched the fireworks rocketing into the night sky.
Note
One spelling does three jobs: a progressive verb (prices are rocketing), a gerund naming the action, and an adjective before a noun. Nigel Harris, writing in RAIL in 2021, uses the last: "the rocketing popularity of potatoes in London's diet." In that slot the meaning is rising or soaring rapidly. The gerund can also carry the military meaning: the rocketing of a position is an attack on it with rockets.
rocketing is a form of rocket
rocket, verb: To rise, soar, or fly upward very rapidly; (of prices, numbers, etc.) to increase very quickly. Full entry
- Spelling
- rocket → rocketing: add -ing
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