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aversing

aversing is the present participle and gerund of averse.

Meaning of averse

Verb

averse (third-person singular simple present averses, present participle aversing, simple past and past participle aversed)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To turn away.
    • […] and, in this panegyrick of the Teutonick blood, I have so prolixly insisted, not only to vindicate our own, as being a stream of the same, and to evince the nobility thereof, but withal to convince the folly of those wretches among us, who aversing ours do so much adhere unto, and dote upon...1808, The Harleian miscellany

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Questions about aversing

What is aversing the present participle and gerund of?
Aversing is the present participle and gerund of averse.

Words near aversing in the dictionary

  1. aversed
  2. aversely
  3. averseness
  4. aversenesses
  5. averses
  6. aversing
  7. aversio
  8. aversion
  9. aversion therapies
  10. aversion therapy
  11. aversions

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