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fraising

fraising is the present participle and gerund of fraise.

Meaning of fraise

Verb (1)

fraise (third-person singular simple present fraises, present participle fraising, simple past and past participle fraised)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To put in danger, in terror, or at risk.

Verb (2)

fraise (third-person singular simple present fraises, present participle fraising, simple past and past participle fraised)

  1. To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
    • to fraise a battaion is to line or cover it every way with bayonets1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

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Questions about fraising

What is fraising the present participle and gerund of?
Fraising is the present participle and gerund of fraise.

Words near fraising in the dictionary

  1. fraises
  2. fraises des bois
  3. fraises du bois
  4. fraisier
  5. fraisiers
  6. fraising
  7. fraist
  8. Fraisthorpe
  9. fraisting
  10. Fraizer
  11. Fraizers

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