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abraiding

abraiding is the present participle and gerund of abraid.

Meaning of abraid

Verb

abraid (third-person singular simple present abraids, present participle abraiding, simple past and past participle abraided or abraid)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To wrench (something) out.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To unsheathe a blade, draw a weapon.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To wake up.
    • She ferde as she had stert out of a sleep, / Til she out of hire mazednesse abreyde.1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerke of Oxenfordes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of...
  4. (archaic, intransitive) To spring, start, make a sudden movement.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete, transitive) To shout out.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To rise in the stomach with nausea.

Questions about abraiding

What is abraiding the present participle and gerund of?
Abraiding is the present participle and gerund of abraid.

Words near abraiding in the dictionary

  1. Abrahamyans
  2. Abrahan
  3. Abrahart
  4. abraid
  5. abraided
  6. abraiding
  7. abraids
  8. abram
  9. Abram cove
  10. Abram coves
  11. Abram man

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