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leaguering

leaguering is the present participle and gerund of leaguer.

Meaning of leaguer

Verb

leaguer (third-person singular simple present leaguers, present participle leaguering, simple past and past participle leaguered)

  1. To set up camp.
    • So we leaguer here, get some sleep pray God, we had damn all last night, everyone doing repairs till all hours...1987, Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
  2. (obsolete) To beleaguer; to besiege.
    • Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, […]1869 December (indicated as 1870 January), James Russell Lowell, “The Cathedral”, in James Thomas Fields, editor, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume...

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Questions about leaguering

What is leaguering the present participle and gerund of?
Leaguering is the present participle and gerund of leaguer.

Words near leaguering in the dictionary

  1. leaguelong
  2. leaguer
  3. leaguered
  4. leaguerer
  5. leaguerers
  6. leaguering
  7. leaguers
  8. leagues
  9. leaguewide
  10. leaguing
  11. leaguist

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