Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of bask
nounbasking (plural baskings)
plural baskings
- The act of one who basks.
With no lectures given or heard, no pups offered and ignored or contemptuously rejected by telegraph, no snatches at conversation in the midst of crowds, no baskings on the lawn at Bryn Mawr, no nothing at all, in short […]
1999, Linda Simon, William James Remembered
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APA
basking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/basking
MLA
“basking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/basking. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “basking,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/basking.
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