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bastilling

bastilling is the present participle and gerund of bastille.

Meaning of bastille

Verb

bastille (third-person singular simple present bastilles, present participle bastilling, simple past and past participle bastilled)

  1. (also, figuratively, transitive) To confine (someone or something) in, or as if in, a bastille (noun sense 2.1) or prison; to imprison.
    • Inſtead of forging Chains for Foreigners, / Baſtile thy Tutor: Grandeur All thy Aim?1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. […]”, in The Complaint...

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Forms of bastilling

alternative formbastiling

Questions about bastilling

What is bastilling the present participle and gerund of?
Bastilling is the present participle and gerund of bastille.

Words near bastilling in the dictionary

  1. bastiling
  2. bastille
  3. Bastille Day
  4. bastilled
  5. bastilles
  6. bastilling
  7. bastillion
  8. bastillions
  9. Bastin
  10. bastinade
  11. bastinaded

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