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empiercing

empiercing is the present participle and gerund of empierce.

Meaning of empierce

Verb

empierce (third-person singular simple present empierces, present participle empiercing, simple past and past participle empierced)

  1. (archaic) To pierce through.
    • The weapon bright / Taking aduantage of his open iaw, / Ran through his mouth with so importune might, / That deepe emperst his darksome hollow maw [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about empiercing

What is empiercing the present participle and gerund of?
Empiercing is the present participle and gerund of empierce.

Words near empiercing in the dictionary

  1. empiecements
  2. empierce
  3. empierced
  4. empiercement
  5. empierces
  6. empiercing
  7. empiernado
  8. empight
  9. emping
  10. empire
  11. Empire Bay

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