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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)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) 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
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) 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

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Questions about graming

What is graming the present participle and gerund of?
Graming is the present participle and gerund of grame.

Words near graming in the dictionary

  1. graminan
  2. graminans
  3. gramine
  4. gramineal
  5. gramineous
  6. graming
  7. graminicide
  8. graminicides
  9. graminicolous
  10. graminid
  11. graminids

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