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angariating

angariating is the present participle and gerund of angariate.

Meaning of angariate

Verb

angariate (third-person singular simple present angariates, present participle angariating, simple past and past participle angariated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To compel or force (someone).
    • Howſoeuer, if parting with a peece of money be ſuch a Preſſure to the husband for the Wines wilfulnes, what a miſerable Preſſing Crueltie was that to burne a woman great with Childe, which opening the wombe in the torments , and comming foorth, was Angariated as throwen backe into the fire, to bee...1609, William Barlow, An Ansvver to a Catholike English-man, London: […] Thomas Haneland for Mathew Law, page 140

Questions about angariating

What is angariating the present participle and gerund of?
Angariating is the present participle and gerund of angariate.

Words near angariating in the dictionary

  1. angaria
  2. angarias
  3. angariate
  4. angariated
  5. angariates
  6. angariating
  7. angariation
  8. angariations
  9. angaries
  10. angarkha
  11. angarkhas

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