spotlighting
- 1Present participle and gerund of spotlight.
The documentary is spotlighting communities affected by the long drought.
Spotlighting one star performer can quietly overshadow the rest of the cast.
Note
One -ing form doing two jobs: after be it is a participle (the film is spotlighting rural towns), and as a subject or object it is a gerund (Spotlighting one performer…). Either way it is transitive and takes an object, since you spotlight someone or something. Beyond stage lamps and figurative attention, it also names a hunting method: shining a spotlight on animals, the practice otherwise called jacklighting.
spotlighting is a form of spotlight
spotlight, verb: To bring something to public notice; to make it the focus of attention. Full entry
- Forms
- spotlightspotlights he/she/itspotlighting -ing formspotlighted past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- spotlight → spotlighting: add -ing
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