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entertaking

entertaking is the present participle and gerund of entertake.

Meaning of entertake

Verb

entertake (third-person singular simple present entertakes, present participle entertaking, simple past entertook, past participle entertaken)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To entertain; to receive.
    • And with more myld aspect those two to entertake.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about entertaking

What is entertaking the present participle and gerund of?
Entertaking is the present participle and gerund of entertake.

Words near entertaking in the dictionary

  1. entertainments
  2. entertains
  3. entertake
  4. entertaken
  5. entertakes
  6. entertaking
  7. entertissued
  8. entertook
  9. entertoyment
  10. entertrainment
  11. enterwrought

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