The Verbing Verb[-Noun]s Thread

[bkadoctaj]

Feel free to post your own if you feel they are worth contemplating. I find myself doing it so much that I figured I'd just put them in a single thread as I consider them. So here goes:

Understanding understanding
Thinking about thinking
Proclaiming about proclamation
Contraceiving contraception
Contradicting contradiction
Proving proof
Improving improvement
Conceiving conception
Creating creation
Simplifying simplification
Dismissing dismissal
Giving giving
Seeing sight
Trying to try
Supporting support
Being being
Killing killing
Lacking lack
Defining definition
Transmitting transmission
Respecting respect
Consuming consumption

[bkadoctaj]

This doesn't exactly follow the paradigm but:

Only only.