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dodders

dodders is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dodder.

dodders is the plural of dodder.

Meaning of dodder

Verb

dodder (third-person singular simple present dodders, present participle doddering, simple past and past participle doddered)

  1. (intransitive) To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.
    • Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after...1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 432

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Questions about dodders

What is dodders the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dodders is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dodder.

Words near dodders in the dictionary

  1. dodderiest
  2. dodderiness
  3. doddering
  4. dodderingly
  5. dodderings
  6. dodders
  7. doddery
  8. doddie
  9. doddies
  10. dodding
  11. Doddington

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