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fire-fang

fire-fang verb: to cause (manure) to lose its goodness and acquire an ashy hue because of the heat generated by decomposition.

Verb

fire-fang (third-person singular simple present fire-fangs, present participle fire-fanging, simple past and past participle fire-fanged)

  1. (transitive) To cause (manure) to lose its goodness and acquire an ashy hue because of the heat generated by decomposition.

Forms of fire-fang

third-person singular presentfire-fangs
present participlefire-fanging
past participlefire-fanged
pastfire-fanged
alternative formfirefang

Origin of fire-fang

From fire + fang; see fang (“to seize”).

Questions about fire-fang

What does fire-fang mean?
Fire-fang means to cause (manure) to lose its goodness and acquire an ashy hue because of the heat generated by decomposition.
What part of speech is fire-fang?
Fire-fang is a verb.
What is the past tense of fire-fang?
The past tense of fire-fang is fire-fanged.

Words near fire-fang in the dictionary

  1. fire-extinguishers
  2. fire-eye
  3. fire-eyed diucon
  4. fire-eyed diucons
  5. fire-eyes
  6. fire-fang
  7. fire-fanged
  8. fire-fanging
  9. fire-fangs
  10. fire-fight
  11. fire-fights

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