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accloying

accloying is the present participle and gerund of accloy.

Meaning of accloy

Verb

accloy (third-person singular simple present accloys, present participle accloying, simple past and past participle accloyed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To drive a nail into a horseshoe; to lame.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To overfill; to fill to satiety; to stuff full.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To clog, clog up; to block.
    • At the well head the purest streames arise: / But mucky filth his braunching armes annoyes, / And with vncomely weedes the gentle waue accloyes.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii
  4. (archaic, transitive) To be disgusting to.

Questions about accloying

What is accloying the present participle and gerund of?
Accloying is the present participle and gerund of accloy.

Words near accloying in the dictionary

  1. acclivitous
  2. acclivity
  3. acclivous
  4. accloy
  5. accloyed
  6. accloying
  7. accloys
  8. ACCME
  9. accoast
  10. accoasted
  11. accoasting

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