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abrooking

abrooking is the present participle and gerund of abrook.

Meaning of abrook

Verb

abrook (third-person singular simple present abrooks, present participle abrooking, simple past and past participle abrooked)

  1. To brook; to endure.
    • […] / Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet. / Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook / The abject people gazing on thy face / With envious looks, laughing at thy shame, / […]1591, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, act 2, scene 4, lines 8–12

Questions about abrooking

What is abrooking the present participle and gerund of?
Abrooking is the present participle and gerund of abrook.

Words near abrooking in the dictionary

  1. abronia
  2. abronias
  3. abrood
  4. abrook
  5. abrooked
  6. abrooking
  7. abrooks
  8. abrosexual
  9. abrosexuality
  10. abrosexuals
  11. abrosia

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