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dispacing

dispacing is the present participle and gerund of dispace.

Meaning of dispace

Verb

dispace (third-person singular simple present dispaces, present participle dispacing, simple past and past participle dispaced)

  1. (obsolete) To wander, to roam, move about.
    • The Oke, whose acornes were our foode, before
      Thus wise long time he did himselfe dispace
      That Ceres seede of mortall men were knowne1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Virgil's Gnat”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC

Questions about dispacing

What is dispacing the present participle and gerund of?
Dispacing is the present participle and gerund of dispace.

Words near dispacing in the dictionary

  1. disoxygenation
  2. DISP
  3. dispace
  4. dispaced
  5. dispaces
  6. dispacing
  7. dispair
  8. dispaired
  9. dispairing
  10. dispairs
  11. dispalatalization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dispacing (page history and authors); dispace (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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