subjecting
- 1Present participle and gerund of subject.
Subjecting the alloy to extreme heat revealed hidden cracks in the casting.
The regime was accused of subjecting detainees to prolonged interrogation.
Note
A verb form that usually travels with two partners: the thing acted on, and a to-phrase naming what it must undergo, as in subjecting the alloy to heat or subjecting detainees to interrogation. As a gerund it keeps that object, so it can open a sentence as its subject. Keep it apart from the adjective subject to (liable, or conditional upon), which takes no -ing ending. Subjecting is always the verb of causing or subduing.
subjecting is a form of subject
subject, verb: To expose someone or something to a particular treatment or experience, especially an unpleasant or unwelcome one. Full entry
- Spelling
- subject → subjecting: add -ing
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