wising
- 1Present participle of wise.
Voters are finally wising up to empty campaign promises.
After years of being cheated by the dealer, she was wising up at last.
Note
The -ing form follows its verb's spelling rule: wise drops its final e before the suffix. Most everyday use comes through slang wise up, which works in both directions. You can be wising up (learning) or wising someone up (telling them), and the second puts the person between verb and particle. The older meanings, to instruct, advise or guide, belong to dialect speech.
Somebody should be wising him up about how the office really works.
She spent the first week wising the new hires up to the shortcuts.
wising is a form of wise
wise, verb: To inform someone of the truth, or to come to learn it, usually in the form "wise up". Full entry
- Spelling
- wise → wising: drop the e, add -ing
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