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emunge

emunge verb: to wipe or cleanse, especially one's nose.

Verb

emunge (third-person singular simple present emunges, present participle emunging, simple past and past participle emunged)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To wipe or cleanse, especially one's nose.
    • The moment of inspiration commences — the speaker emunges his nose with all his might - a doleful voice, scarcely audible, something like the melancholy moan of the midnight breeze, which so few have heard, informs you might have supposed destitute of the organs of speech, possesses in some respect...1949, J. D. H. Widdess, An Account of the Schools of Surgery

Forms of emunge

third-person singular presentemunges
present participleemunging
past participleemunged
pastemunged

Origin of emunge

Borrowed from Latin ēmungō.

Questions about emunge

What does emunge mean?
Emunge means to wipe or cleanse, especially one's nose.
What part of speech is emunge?
Emunge is a verb.
What is the past tense of emunge?
The past tense of emunge is emunged.

Words near emunge in the dictionary

  1. emunction
  2. emunctions
  3. emunctories
  4. emunctory
  5. emundation
  6. emunge
  7. emunged
  8. emunges
  9. emunging
  10. emus
  11. emuscene

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