Word: graving
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: gra
ving
Definition: The act of cleaning a ship's bottom.
Morphemes:
Affix: grave
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form uncountable nouns from verbs denoting the act of doing something, an action.