verifying
SayVER-i-fy-ing/ˈvɛɹɪfaɪɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of verify.
Auditors spent the week verifying every transaction in the ledger.
Verifying the witness's account proved harder than the detectives had expected.
Note
One spelling does two jobs here: a participle in progressive tenses (the team is verifying the figures) and a gerund heading a noun phrase (verifying the figures took weeks). Every meaning of verify is transitive, so both uses normally take a direct object. Context sorts the sense: verifying a claim can mean proving it or merely checking it, while verifying a statement under oath means formally swearing to it.
verifying is a form of verify
verify, verb: To confirm or test that something is true or accurate. Full entry
- Spelling
- verify → verifying: add -ing
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