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indrifting

indrifting is the present participle and gerund of indrift.

Meaning of indrift

Verb

indrift (third-person singular simple present indrifts, present participle indrifting, simple past and past participle indrifted)

  1. To drift in.
    • It was as one of the old Cinque Ports which the departing sea and the ever indrifting sand have left high and dry, unapproachable by water, a port only in name.1876, Edward Dutton Cook, A Book of the Play

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Questions about indrifting

What is indrifting the present participle and gerund of?
Indrifting is the present participle and gerund of indrift.

Words near indrifting in the dictionary

  1. indricotheres
  2. indrid
  3. indrids
  4. indrift
  5. indrifted
  6. indrifting
  7. indrifts
  8. indriid
  9. indriids
  10. indris
  11. indrises

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