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[ gal-uh-ping ] / ˈgæl ə pɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR galloping ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveat a gallop; running or moving quickly. progressing rapidly to some conclusion, as a disease: galloping pneumonia. growing or spreading rapidly: galloping inflation. Origin of gallopingFirst recorded in 1595–1605; gallop + -ing2 OTHER WORDS FROM gallopingun·gal·lop·ing, adjectiveWords nearby gallopinggallonage, galloon, galloot, gallop, gallopade, galloping, galloping dominoes, gallop rhythm, Gallo-Romance, gallotannic acid, gallous Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for gallopingPerhaps the most powerful driver of this galloping group-think? Partisan Journalists Are Following the Money All Too Literally|John Avlon|November 14, 2012|DAILY BEAST Riders from Russia's Kremlin Riding School formed a human pyramid on galloping mounts in a daredevil show of horseback acrobatics. First Major Jubilee Show Kicks Off in Windsor|Tom Sykes|May 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST It seemed to Polly that the days fairly crept by, instead of galloping past as they had been wont to do in the last three years. Polly's Southern Cruise|Lillian Elizabeth Roy It was after midnight when the galloping stallion brought us into the town of Rovaniemi. Through Arctic Lapland|Cutcliffe Hyne
One had scarlet fever, and the other was a young starving clerk in a galloping consumption, thirty-six hours from his home. The Luck of Thirteen|Jan Gordon The galloping pulse slowed—and leaped again—and fluttered, and fell at last to even beats. Uncle William|Jennette Lee She heard their galloping hoofs closer and closer behind her. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn|Evelyn Everett-Green
British Dictionary definitions for galloping
adjective(prenominal) progressing at or as if at a gallopgalloping consumption Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to gallopingzoom, dart, dash, stride, lope, hurry, amble, trot, shoot, canter, rush, run, course, career, spring, jump, pace, leap, fly, hurdle |