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guarish

guarish verb: to heal or cure.

Verb

guarish (third-person singular simple present guarishes, present participle guarishing, simple past and past participle guarished)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To heal or cure.
    • [T]he Mayd / His readie vvound with better ſalues new dreſt, / Daily ſhe dreſſed him, and did the beſt / His grieuous hurt to guariſh, that ſhe might, […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 41, page 473

Forms of guarish

third-person singular presentguarishes
present participleguarishing
past participleguarished
pastguarished

Origin of guarish

From the stem of Old French guarir, garir, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną.

Questions about guarish

What does guarish mean?
Guarish means to heal or cure.
What part of speech is guarish?
Guarish is a verb.
What is the past tense of guarish?
The past tense of guarish is guarished.

Words near guarish in the dictionary

  1. guarinoite
  2. Guarins
  3. Guariquena
  4. Guarisco
  5. Guariscos
  6. guarish
  7. guarished
  8. guarishes
  9. guarishing
  10. guariuba
  11. Guarnaschelli

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