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aggest

/əˈd͡ʒɛst/

aggest verb: to heap up.

Verb

aggest (third-person singular simple present aggests, present participle aggesting, simple past and past participle aggested)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To heap up.
    • The violence of the waters aggested the earth.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)

Forms of aggest

third-person singular presentaggests
present participleaggesting
past participleaggested
pastaggested

Origin of aggest

From Latin aggestus, past participle of aggerere. See agger.

Questions about aggest

What does aggest mean?
Aggest means to heap up.
What part of speech is aggest?
Aggest is a verb.
How do you pronounce aggest?
Aggest is pronounced /əˈd͡ʒɛst/.
What is the past tense of aggest?
The past tense of aggest is aggested.

Words near aggest in the dictionary

  1. aggerating
  2. aggeration
  3. aggerations
  4. aggerose
  5. aggers
  6. aggest
  7. aggested
  8. aggesting
  9. aggests
  10. Aggett
  11. agggh

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