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disharnessing

disharnessing is the present participle and gerund of disharness.

Meaning of disharness

Verb

disharness (third-person singular simple present disharnesses, present participle disharnessing, simple past and past participle disharnessed)

  1. To take off one's armor; to strip off one's armor.
    • Arrived there, Edwald had himself disharnessed: he placed all the pieces of his fair bright armour carefully together, with a kind exactness, almost as if he were burying a beloved friend that was dead. Then he beckoned his squires[…]1827, Thomas Carlyle, The Works of Thomas Carlyle, page 235

Questions about disharnessing

What is disharnessing the present participle and gerund of?
Disharnessing is the present participle and gerund of disharness.

Words near disharnessing in the dictionary

  1. disharmonizing
  2. disharmony
  3. disharness
  4. disharnessed
  5. disharnesses
  6. disharnessing
  7. Disharoon
  8. Disharoons
  9. dishaunt
  10. dishaunted
  11. dishaunting

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