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agrising

agrising is the present participle and gerund of agrise.

Meaning of agrise

Verb

agrise (third-person singular simple present agrises, present participle agrising, simple past and past participle agrised)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified.
    • And powring forth their bloud in brutishe wize,
      That any yron eyes to see it would agrize.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To make tremble, to terrify.

Questions about agrising

What is agrising the present participle and gerund of?
Agrising is the present participle and gerund of agrise.

Words near agrising in the dictionary

  1. agrise
  2. agrised
  3. agrises
  4. agrisilvicultural
  5. agrisilviculture
  6. agrising
  7. agrisolar
  8. agrisystem
  9. agrisystems
  10. agritainment
  11. agritech

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