In the process of fungate; actively growing or proliferating in a fungal-like manner, particularly of abnormal tissue or infections.
Fungate + -ing (present participle ending). This form describes the ongoing process of fungating growth. The -ing suffix, from Old English, creates both gerunds (nouns) and present participles (adjectives or parts of progressive verbs).
The -ing suffix is one of English's most versatile features—it creates nouns ('running'), adjectives ('running water'), and verb forms ('I am running'), all from the same stem, which gives English writers incredible grammatical flexibility compared to languages with stricter word categories.
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