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dephlegming

dephlegming is the present participle and gerund of dephlegm.

Meaning of dephlegm

Verb

dephlegm (third-person singular simple present dephlegms, present participle dephlegming, simple past and past participle dephlegmed)

  1. (obsolete, physical) To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate.
    • Having almost filled a vial, capable of containing near a pound of human blood, with a mixture of that, and some rectify'd spirit of wine, by guess a fourth, or an eighth part; at the end of above three years, looking upon the same glass, stopt with nothing but a cork, we found it coagulated, or of...1684, Robert Boyle, Memoirs for the Natural History of the Human Blood

Questions about dephlegming

What is dephlegming the present participle and gerund of?
Dephlegming is the present participle and gerund of dephlegm.

Words near dephlegming in the dictionary

  1. dephlegmations
  2. dephlegmator
  3. dephlegmators
  4. dephlegmatory
  5. dephlegmed
  6. dephlegming
  7. dephlegms
  8. dephlogisticate
  9. dephlogisticated
  10. dephlogisticated air
  11. dephlogisticates

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