laming
noun, verb
laming is a noun meaning “The act or process of rendering lame” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-A-M-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of laming is lamings.
What does laming mean?
noun
- 1
The act or process of rendering lame.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of lame
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of laming
- lamings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is laming?
Laming appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does laming come from?
From Middle English laminge, equivalent to lame + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).