graming
graming is the present participle and gerund of grame.
Meaning of grame
Verb
grame (third-person singular simple present grames, present participle graming, simple past and past participle gramed)
- To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
- Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail.
For when they have take the sea, / At Sandwich, or at Winchelsea, / At Bristol, or where that it may be, / Their hearts begin to fail.1888, Henry Macaulay Fitzgibbon, Early English and Scottish Poetry, 1250-1600, page 235
- Synonyms:
- affront, aggravate, anger, antagonize, awrath, burn up, cheese off, cross, embitter, envenom
- Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail.
- To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.
- The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame.1526, John Skelton, Magnyfycence, published 1864
Questions about graming
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- Graming is the present participle and gerund of grame.
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