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diseasing

diseasing is the present participle and gerund of disease.

Meaning of disease

Verb

disease (third-person singular simple present diseases, present participle diseasing, simple past and past participle diseased)

  1. (transitive) To infect with a disease.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
    • Whyll he yett ſpeake
      there cam won from the rulers off the ſynagogis houſſe
      which ſayde to hym: Thy doughter is deed
      diſeaſe not the maſter.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke viij:[49], folio lxxxix, recto

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Questions about diseasing

What is diseasing the present participle and gerund of?
Diseasing is the present participle and gerund of disease.

Words near diseasing in the dictionary

  1. diseasement
  2. diseasements
  3. diseases
  4. diseases of despair
  5. diseaseth
  6. diseasing
  7. diseasome
  8. diseasomes
  9. diseconomies
  10. diseconomies of scale
  11. diseconomy

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