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inrunning

inrunning adjective: running or flowing inward.

Adjective

inrunning (not comparable)

  1. Running or flowing inward.
    • an inrunning current has at last become enabled to flow out by its old path again1890, William James, The Principles of Psychology, Chapter 2
    • “Long Wharf,” said Ericsson, jamming the wheel over as the tug churned past the outside dolphins, and putting the engines ahead. He clipped open a speaking-tube and conversed briefly with invisible authority below. The Wonder squatted down duckwise, stuck her battered nose up and scuttered across...1917, John Fleming Wilson, The Ex-Husband

Noun

inrunning (plural inrunnings)

  1. (archaic) The act or the place of entrance
  2. an inlet.
    • And Lancelot answer'd nothing, but he went, / And at the inrunning of a little brook / Sat by the river in a cove1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 220
    • On either side the woodland moved slowly back. The morning mist had not yet vanished, but floated against the trees in silver drifts, and veiled every inrunning of the shores with bright mystery.1917, Frederick Schiller Faust, The Gambler and the Stake

Forms of inrunning

pluralinrunnings

Origin of inrunning

From in- + running.

Questions about inrunning

What does inrunning mean?
Inrunning means running or flowing inward.
What part of speech is inrunning?
Inrunning can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near inrunning in the dictionary

  1. inrolments
  2. inros
  3. inrounded
  4. inrounding
  5. inrun
  6. inrunning
  7. inrunnings
  8. inruns
  9. inruption
  10. inruptions
  11. inrush

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