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aggrating

aggrating is the present participle and gerund of aggrate.

Meaning of aggrate

Verb

aggrate (third-person singular simple present aggrates, present participle aggrating, simple past and past participle aggrated)

  1. (obsolete) To gratify, cause pleasure to.
    • And euery of them stroue, with most delights, / Him to aggrate, and greatest pleasures shew […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about aggrating

What is aggrating the present participle and gerund of?
Aggrating is the present participle and gerund of aggrate.

Words near aggrating in the dictionary

  1. aggrandizing
  2. aggrandizings
  3. aggrate
  4. aggrated
  5. aggrates
  6. aggrating
  7. aggravable
  8. aggravatable
  9. aggravate
  10. aggravated
  11. aggravated assault

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