starfishing
- 1Present participle and gerund of starfish.
She lay starfishing on the cool grass after the long race, too tired to move.
Swim instructors start nervous beginners with starfishing, floating face-up with their limbs spread wide.
Note
A single -ing form does two grammatical jobs here. After be or keep it works as a participle: the kids were starfishing on the trampoline. As a gerund it names the activity: starfishing is the easiest way to rest in a pool. Usually nothing gets starfished; a person simply spreads out on a bed, the grass or the water. It can also take an object, meaning to spread something into that splayed shape.
starfishing is a form of starfish
starfish, verb: To take on a splayed-out shape, with arms and legs spread wide like a starfish. Full entry
- Forms
- starfishstarfishes he/she/itstarfishing -ing formstarfished past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- starfish → starfishing: add -ing
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