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astarting

astarting is the present participle and gerund of astart.

Meaning of astart

Verb

astart (third-person singular simple present astarts, present participle astarting, simple past and past participle astarted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to start; startle; start up; jump.
    • oft out of her bed she did astart, / As one with vew of ghastly feends affright [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (intransitive) To start up.
  3. (obsolete) To get away, escape; escape from.
  4. (intransitive) To be escaped from.

See all 5 meanings of astart

Questions about astarting

What is astarting the present participle and gerund of?
Astarting is the present participle and gerund of astart.

Words near astarting in the dictionary

  1. astart
  2. Astarte
  3. astarted
  4. astartid
  5. astartids
  6. astarting
  7. astarts
  8. Astas
  9. astasia
  10. astasia-abasia
  11. astasias

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