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addorsing

addorsing is the present participle and gerund of addorse.

Meaning of addorse

Verb

addorse (third-person singular simple present addorses, present participle addorsing, simple past and past participle addorsed)

  1. To place back-to-back, to place with the back to (something else's back).
    • I replied (out of a former letter from your Lordship) with some marvel why this Signory did not by their own resident in England motion the matter to the resident there of the States rather than addorse it upon his Majesty.1907, Logan Pearsall Smith, Sir Henry Wotton, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, page 455

Questions about addorsing

What is addorsing the present participle and gerund of?
Addorsing is the present participle and gerund of addorse.

Words near addorsing in the dictionary

  1. addooming
  2. addooms
  3. addorse
  4. addorsed
  5. addorses
  6. addorsing
  7. ADDOs
  8. addra
  9. addras
  10. address
  11. address assignment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: addorsing (page history and authors); addorse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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