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disserting

disserting is the present participle and gerund of dissert.

Meaning of dissert

Verb

dissert (third-person singular simple present disserts, present participle disserting, simple past and past participle disserted)

  1. To discourse or dispute; to discuss.
    • This, we are persuaded, is the true key to the greater part of the peculiarities of the author before us; and though we have disserted upon it a little longer than was necessary, we really think it may enable our readers to comprehend him […]1819, Francis Jeffrey, “Tales of the Hall”, in The Edinburgh Review July 1819

Questions about disserting

What is disserting the present participle and gerund of?
Disserting is the present participle and gerund of dissert.

Words near disserting in the dictionary

  1. dissertator
  2. dissertators
  3. disserted
  4. Disserth
  5. Disserth and Trecoed
  6. disserting
  7. disserts
  8. disserve
  9. disserved
  10. disserves
  11. disservice

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disserting (page history and authors); dissert (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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