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frushes

frushes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of frush.

Meaning of frush

Verb

frush (third-person singular simple present frushes, present participle frushing, simple past and past participle frushed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To break up, smash.
    • Rinaldo's armor frush'd and hack'd they had,
      Oft pierced through, with blood besmeared new.1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, xlviii
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To charge, rush violently.
    • And than they fruyshed forth all at onys, of the bourelyest knyghtes that ever brake brede, with mo than fyve hondred at the formyst frunte [...].1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich]...
  3. (historical, transitive) To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).

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What is frushes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Frushes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of frush.

Words near frushes in the dictionary

  1. Frunză
  2. fruquintinib
  3. frusemide
  4. frush
  5. frushed
  6. frushes
  7. frushing
  8. frusht
  9. frusta
  10. frusto-conical
  11. frustoconical

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