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gasting

gasting is the present participle and gerund of gast.

Meaning of gast

Verb

gast (third-person singular simple present gasts, present participle gasting, simple past and past participle gasted)

  1. (obsolete) To frighten.
    • [H]ee charges home my vnprouided body, lancht mine arme, but when he ſaw my beſt alarumd ſpirits, bould in the quarrels, rights, rouſd to the encounter, or whether gaſted by the noyſe I made, but ſodainly he fled.c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […]...

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Questions about gasting

What is gasting the present participle and gerund of?
Gasting is the present participle and gerund of gast.

Words near gasting in the dictionary

  1. gasthauses
  2. gastight
  3. gastightness
  4. Gastineau
  5. Gastineaus
  6. gasting
  7. gastly
  8. gastness
  9. gaston
  10. Gaston County
  11. gastoned

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