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compinging

compinging is the present participle and gerund of compinge.

Meaning of compinge

Verb

compinge (third-person singular simple present compinges, present participle compinging, simple past and past participle compinged)

  1. (obsolete) To compress; to shut up (confine).
    • Into what straits hath it been compinged1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC

Questions about compinging

What is compinging the present participle and gerund of?
Compinging is the present participle and gerund of compinge.

Words near compinging in the dictionary

  1. compiling
  2. compilings
  3. comping
  4. compinge
  5. compinged
  6. compinging
  7. compings
  8. compiss
  9. compital
  10. Compitalia
  11. Compiègne

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