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dammish

dammish verb: to stun, to stupefy.

Verb

dammish (third-person singular simple present dammishes, present participle dammishing, simple past and past participle dammished)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) to stun, to stupefy
    • I was benummed (as it were) and dammished with the sight of the excellent majesty and glory that I saw in him […]1660, James Durham, A Commentarie Upon the Book of the Revelation

Forms of dammish

third-person singular presentdammishes
present participledammishing
past participledammished
pastdammished

Origin of dammish

From Scots dammish, probably from Middle English damagen. Doublet of damage.

Questions about dammish

What does dammish mean?
Dammish means to stun, to stupefy.
What part of speech is dammish?
Dammish is a verb.
What is the past tense of dammish?
The past tense of dammish is dammished.

Words near dammish in the dictionary

  1. dammest
  2. dammeth
  3. damming
  4. damming up
  5. dammings
  6. dammish
  7. dammished
  8. dammishes
  9. dammishing
  10. dammit
  11. dammit all to hell

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