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abstruding

abstruding is the present participle and gerund of abstrude.

Meaning of abstrude

Verb

abstrude (third-person singular simple present abstrudes, present participle abstruding, simple past and past participle abstruded)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To thrust away.
    • Thus it is with regard to the elementary substance of fire; dispensed, perhaps, to every thing corporeal, but hid deepest in those substances which are most densely compacted. It is intimately abstruded in what poetical licence terms the Veins of Flint; […]1773, Thomas Patten, A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord North, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Concerning Subscription to the 39 Articles, page 27

Questions about abstruding

What is abstruding the present participle and gerund of?
Abstruding is the present participle and gerund of abstrude.

Words near abstruding in the dictionary

  1. abstringes
  2. abstringing
  3. abstrude
  4. abstruded
  5. abstrudes
  6. abstruding
  7. abstruse
  8. abstrused
  9. abstrusely
  10. abstruseness
  11. abstrusenesses

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