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beduncing

beduncing is the present participle and gerund of bedunce.

Meaning of bedunce

Verb

bedunce (third-person singular simple present bedunces, present participle beduncing, simple past and past participle bedunced)

  1. (archaic, rare, transitive) To treat as, or reduce to, a dunce; to make stupid.
    • After he has sufficiently bedunced us through several pages, he at last has the tenderness to answer to our particular objections, and that with sufficient perplexity.1866, Oliver Goldsmith, The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, page 515

Questions about beduncing

What is beduncing the present participle and gerund of?
Beduncing is the present participle and gerund of bedunce.

Words near beduncing in the dictionary

  1. bedumbing
  2. bedumbs
  3. bedunce
  4. bedunced
  5. bedunces
  6. beduncing
  7. bedung
  8. bedunged
  9. bedunging
  10. bedungs
  11. bedurst

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beduncing (page history and authors); bedunce (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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