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ferruminating

ferruminating is the present participle and gerund of ferruminate.

Meaning of ferruminate

Verb

ferruminate (third-person singular simple present ferruminates, present participle ferruminating, simple past and past participle ferruminated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive, usually figurativr) To solder, fuse together, merge or unite, as if metals.
    • c. 1810-1820?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Ben Jonson
      too many other passages ferruminated by Jonson from Seneca's tragedies and the writings of the later Romans

Questions about ferruminating

What is ferruminating the present participle and gerund of?
Ferruminating is the present participle and gerund of ferruminate.

Words near ferruminating in the dictionary

  1. ferruling
  2. ferrum
  3. ferruminate
  4. ferruminated
  5. ferruminates
  6. ferruminating
  7. ferrumination
  8. ferrums
  9. ferrxanthone
  10. ferry
  11. ferry boat

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