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haring

haring is the present participle and gerund of hare.

Meaning of hare

Verb (1)

hare (third-person singular simple present hares, present participle haring, simple past and past participle hared)

  1. (intransitive) To move swiftly.
    • But Wales somehow snaffled possession for fly-half Jones to send half-back partner Mike Phillips haring away with Stoddart in support.2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC
    Synonyms:
    rabbit, race, speed, tear

Verb (2)

hare (third-person singular simple present hares, present participle haring, simple past and past participle hared)

  1. (obsolete) To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.
    • To hare and rate them thus at every turn, is not to teach them, but to vex, and torment them to no purpoſe.1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education

See all 12 meanings of hare

Proper noun capitalized: Haring

Haring (countable and uncountable, plural Harings)

  1. A surname.
  2. A township and census-designated place therein, in Wexford County, Michigan, United States.

Forms of haring

pluralHarings

Origin of haring

From the Dutch and German surname from Middle Low German harinc (“herring”).

Questions about haring

What does haring mean?
Haring means a surname.
What is haring the present participle and gerund of?
Haring is the present participle and gerund of hare.
What part of speech is haring?
Haring is a proper noun.

Words near haring in the dictionary

  1. Harimans
  2. Harimathaea
  3. Harimathea
  4. Harimaupura
  5. harims
  6. haring
  7. Haringey
  8. Harings
  9. Harington
  10. Haringtons
  11. hariolate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haring (page history and authors); Haring (page history and authors); hare (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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