button
noun
a small disk, knob, or the like for sewing or otherwise attaching to an article, as of clothing, serving as a fastening when passed through a buttonhole or loop.
are buttoning
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present progressiveof button.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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From Time Magazine Archive
“You are buttoning yourself to me, Sir Grummore. Those are the wrong buttons.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
