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disadvancing

disadvancing is the present participle and gerund of disadvance.

Meaning of disadvance

Verb

disadvance (third-person singular simple present disadvances, present participle disadvancing, simple past and past participle disadvanced)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To draw back, pull back.
    • Through Cambels shoulder it unwarely went, / That forced him his shield to disadvaunce.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about disadvancing

What is disadvancing the present participle and gerund of?
Disadvancing is the present participle and gerund of disadvance.

Words near disadvancing in the dictionary

  1. disadorns
  2. disads
  3. disadvance
  4. disadvanced
  5. disadvances
  6. disadvancing
  7. disadvantage
  8. disadvantageable
  9. disadvantaged
  10. disadvantagedness
  11. disadvantageous

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