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adawing

adawing is the present participle and gerund of adaw.

Meaning of adaw

Verb (1)

adaw (third-person singular simple present adaws, present participle adawing, simple past and past participle adawed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To daunt, overcome, subdue.
    • He, comming home at undertime, there found / The fayrest creature, that he euer saw, / Sitting beside his mother on the ground; / The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13

Verb (2)

adaw (third-person singular simple present adaws, present participle adawing, simple past and past participle adawed)

  1. (obsolete) To awaken, arouse.
    • And hir awook, and thus to hir he cried, "Woman, what is that, that in thin hand I see? What hast thou doon, woman, for him that diede, What wickid spirit hath travaylid the?" And as sone as that adawed was she, The knyfe fel oute of hir hand in the bedde, And she bihilde the cloothis al forbledde...1544, Gesta Romanorum

Questions about adawing

What is adawing the present participle and gerund of?
Adawing is the present participle and gerund of adaw.

Words near adawing in the dictionary

  1. adaunted
  2. adaunting
  3. adaunts
  4. adaw
  5. adawed
  6. adawing
  7. adawlut
  8. adawluts
  9. adaws
  10. adaxial
  11. adaxialization

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