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interrhyming

interrhyming is the present participle and gerund of interrhyme.

Meaning of interrhyme

Verb

interrhyme (third-person singular simple present interrhymes, present participle interrhyming, simple past and past participle interrhymed)

  1. (intransitive) To rhyme with each other.
    • To take a hypothetical example, suppose that words A, B, and C are assumed to interrhyme freely, and that, in a large corpus, B is used as a rhyme word twice as often as C. If the words actually interrhyme freely, then we would expect A to rhyme with B about twice as often as it rhymes with C.1986, John F. McCoy, Timothy Light, Contributions to Sino-Tibetan Studies, page 270
    Synonyms:
    rhyme

Questions about interrhyming

What is interrhyming the present participle and gerund of?
Interrhyming is the present participle and gerund of interrhyme.

Words near interrhyming in the dictionary

  1. interrexes
  2. interrhombomeric
  3. interrhyme
  4. interrhymed
  5. interrhymes
  6. interrhyming
  7. interribosomal
  8. interridge
  9. interrill
  10. interring
  11. interrings

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