DictionaryAI

spraying

SaySPRAY-ing/ˈspɹeɪɪŋ/

Noun pluralsprayings

2 meanings of spraying

Practice

  1. 1
    verb
    Present participle and gerund of spray. Use it after "is" or "are", or as a noun for the action.

    The farmer is spraying the apple trees this morning.

    Our cat keeps spraying near the back door.

    Note
  2. 2
    nouncountable or uncountable
    The act of shooting tiny drops onto something, or one time you do it.

    The roses need a spraying every week to keep the bugs away.

    After two sprayings, the mosquitoes were finally gone.

spraying is a form of spray

spray, verb: To send liquid at a person or thing in many small drops. Full entry

Forms
spraysprays he/she/itspraying -ing formsprayed past tense, past participle
Spelling
spray → spraying: add -ing

Use it in a sentence

Write your own sentence with spraying, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.

Origin

From spray with the ending -ing added.