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fremish

fremish verb: to shiver or shudder.

Verb

fremish (third-person singular simple present fremishes, present participle fremishing, simple past and past participle fremished)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To shiver or shudder.
    • He fremiſhed and for dread trembled, and great cries out of his mouth proceeded […]1859, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair, page 6
    • I fremish to conceive what might happen to the style of certain avant-garde bellelettrists if they were made to assist at some frequentations with Shakespeare […]1954, New Mexico Quarterly, volume 24, University of New Mexico

Forms of fremish

third-person singular presentfremishes
present participlefremishing
past participlefremished
pastfremished

Origin of fremish

From Middle English fremyssh, *fremysshen, from (the stem of) Middle French fremir, from Late Latin *fremīre, from Latin fremere.

Questions about fremish

What does fremish mean?
Fremish means to shiver or shudder.
What part of speech is fremish?
Fremish is a verb.
What is the past tense of fremish?
The past tense of fremish is fremished.

Words near fremish in the dictionary

  1. fremesis
  2. fremesises
  3. Fremin
  4. Fremington
  5. Fremins
  6. fremish
  7. fremished
  8. fremishes
  9. fremishing
  10. fremitus
  11. FREMM

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