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adonising

adonising is the present participle and gerund of adonise.

Meaning of adonise

Verb

adonise (third-person singular simple present adonises, present participle adonising, simple past and past participle adonised)

  1. (transitive) To embellish or adorn, especially in order to improve the appearance of.
    • Delighted with each other......we rambled....arm in arm......about the citron groves;.......and, when a mossy bank invited our repose...my charmer would weave garlands of flowers to adonise her shepherd ; ..........recline upon my arm..... and to the gentle lullaby of a murmuring stream..... sink...1804, Christoph Martin Wieland, Confessions in Elysium: Or, The Adventures of a Platonic, pages 73–74
  2. (intransitive) To enhance one's own appearance.
    • Leaving a breath to swell his tradesmen's books, To adonise, to smile, and kill with looks;1820, Peter Bayley, Sketches from St. George's Fields, page 122

Verb capitalized: Adonising

Adonising

  1. (gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of Adonise

Questions about adonising

What is adonising the present participle and gerund of?
Adonising is the present participle and gerund of adonise.
What part of speech is adonising?
Adonising is a verb.

Words near adonising in the dictionary

  1. Adonis blues
  2. adonis pleco
  3. adonise
  4. adonised
  5. adonises
  6. adonising
  7. Adonism
  8. adonist
  9. adonists
  10. adonite
  11. adonitol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adonising (page history and authors); Adonising (page history and authors); adonise (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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