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dishorsing

dishorsing is the present participle and gerund of dishorse.

Meaning of dishorse

Verb

dishorse (third-person singular simple present dishorses, present participle dishorsing, simple past and past participle dishorsed)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To dismount from a horse.
    • He burst his lance against a forest bough
      Dishorsed himself, and rose again1859, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To unseat from a horse.

Questions about dishorsing

What is dishorsing the present participle and gerund of?
Dishorsing is the present participle and gerund of dishorse.

Words near dishorsing in the dictionary

  1. dishorning
  2. dishorns
  3. dishorse
  4. dishorsed
  5. dishorses
  6. dishorsing
  7. dishouse
  8. dishoused
  9. dishouses
  10. dishousing
  11. dishowner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dishorsing (page history and authors); dishorse (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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