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Booting

7 lettersverbcommon

Updated June 2026

Definition

Present participle of boot, meaning kicking something forcefully or starting up a computer system.

He spent the morning booting the old computer repeatedly before it finally started.

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Synonyms

kickingstarting uplaunchinginitialising

Antonyms

shutting downswitching off

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