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adempting

adempting is the present participle and gerund of adempt.

Meaning of adempt

Verb

adempt (third-person singular simple present adempts, present participle adempting, simple past and past participle adempted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To take away.
    • without any sinister suspicion of any thing in the same being added or adempt1549, Hugh Latimer, “To the reader”, in The Second Sermon preached at Westminster, 15 March 1549

Questions about adempting

What is adempting the present participle and gerund of?
Adempting is the present participle and gerund of adempt.

Words near adempting in the dictionary

  1. ademetionine
  2. ademonist
  3. ademonists
  4. adempt
  5. adempted
  6. adempting
  7. ademption
  8. ademptions
  9. adempts
  10. Adems
  11. Aden

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