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ensweeping

ensweeping is the present participle and gerund of ensweep.

Meaning of ensweep

Verb

ensweep (third-person singular simple present ensweeps, present participle ensweeping, simple past and past participle enswept)

  1. (rare, transitive) To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly or to sweep up.
    • A blaze of meteors shoot: ensweeping first
      The lower skiesa. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC

Questions about ensweeping

What is ensweeping the present participle and gerund of?
Ensweeping is the present participle and gerund of ensweep.

Words near ensweeping in the dictionary

  1. enswathement
  2. enswathements
  3. enswathes
  4. enswathing
  5. ensweep
  6. ensweeping
  7. ensweeps
  8. ensweeten
  9. ensweetened
  10. ensweetening
  11. ensweetens

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