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krissing

krissing is the present participle and gerund of kris.

Meaning of kris

Verb

kris (third-person singular simple present kriss or krisses, present participle krising or krissing, simple past and past participle krised or krissed)

  1. (transitive) To stab or cut with a kris; to kill with a kris.
    • This was reported to the Rajah (to some of whose wives the girl was related), and he immediately sent to the Englishman's house ordering him to give the woman up as she must be "krissed." In vain he begged and prayed, and offered to pay any fine the Rajah might impose, and finally refused to give...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 271

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Questions about krissing

What is krissing the present participle and gerund of?
Krissing is the present participle and gerund of kris.

Words near krissing in the dictionary

  1. Kriss Kringel
  2. Kriss Kringle
  3. krissed
  4. krisses
  5. Krissie
  6. krissing
  7. Krissy
  8. Krista
  9. Kristallnacht
  10. Kristang
  11. Kristen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: krissing (page history and authors); kris (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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