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amating

amating is the present participle and gerund of amate.

Meaning of amate

Verb (1)

amate (third-person singular simple present amates, present participle amating, simple past and past participle amated)

  1. (obsolete) To dishearten, dismay.
    • Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate, / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Verb (2)

amate (third-person singular simple present amates, present participle amating, simple past and past participle amated)

  1. (obsolete) To be a mate to; to match.
    • More lucklesse disadventures did amate1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about amating

What is amating the present participle and gerund of?
Amating is the present participle and gerund of amate.

Words near amating in the dictionary

  1. amateurships
  2. amateuse
  3. amateuses
  4. amathophobia
  5. Amati
  6. amating
  7. Amatis
  8. amative
  9. amatively
  10. amativeness
  11. Amato

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