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dering

dering is the present participle and gerund of dere.

Meaning of dere

Verb

dere (third-person singular simple present deres, present participle dering, simple past and past participle dered)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To annoy, trouble, grieve.

See all 3 meanings of dere

Proper noun capitalized: Dering

Dering (plural Derings)

  1. A surname.

Forms of dering

pluralDerings

Origin of dering

A patronymic from Dear or borrowed from German Dering.

Questions about dering

What does dering mean?
Dering means a surname.
What is dering the present participle and gerund of?
Dering is the present participle and gerund of dere.
What part of speech is dering?
Dering is a proper noun.

Words near dering in the dictionary

  1. derig
  2. derigged
  3. derigging
  4. derigs
  5. derilict
  6. dering
  7. deringer
  8. deringers
  9. deringing
  10. Derings
  11. Deriq

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dering (page history and authors); Dering (page history and authors); dere (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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