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evestigating

evestigating is the present participle and gerund of evestigate.

Meaning of evestigate

Verb

evestigate (third-person singular simple present evestigates, present participle evestigating, simple past and past participle evestigated)

  1. (obsolete) To investigate.
    • It is then highly probable, that the doctrine of the Metempsychosis, which so particularly distinguished Pythagoras, was derived from them, with many other articles and modes of worship, and opinion, which from certain resemblances might be evestigated from the same spring-head.1757, John H. Grose, A Voyage to the East-Indies

Questions about evestigating

What is evestigating the present participle and gerund of?
Evestigating is the present participle and gerund of evestigate.

Words near evestigating in the dictionary

  1. evestar
  2. EVestG
  3. evestigate
  4. evestigated
  5. evestigates
  6. evestigating
  7. evestra
  8. evestrum
  9. evet
  10. evetide
  11. evetides

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