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malagruze

malagruze verb: to cause havoc to; to disarrange, put into disarray.

Verb

malagruze (third-person singular simple present malagruzes, present participle malagruzing, simple past and past participle malagruzed)

  1. (Scotland, archaic) To cause havoc to; to disarrange, put into disarray.
    • the storms came malagarousing the trees down the length and breadth of the shrilling Howe.1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 276
    • "Why remember those nasty centuries when honest folk were queered, pestered and malagroozed by clanjamfries of greedy gangsters who called themselves governments and stock exchanges?"1994, Alasdair Gray, A History Maker

Forms of malagruze

third-person singular presentmalagruzes
present participlemalagruzing
past participlemalagruzed
pastmalagruzed
alternative formmalagarouse
alternative formmalagrooze

Origin of malagruze

From Scots malagruize.

Questions about malagruze

What does malagruze mean?
Malagruze means to cause havoc to; to disarrange, put into disarray.
What part of speech is malagruze?
Malagruze is a verb.
What is the past tense of malagruze?
The past tense of malagruze is malagruzed.

Words near malagruze in the dictionary

  1. Malago
  2. Malagon
  3. Malagonlong
  4. Malagons
  5. malagrugrous
  6. malagruze
  7. malaguena
  8. malaguenas
  9. malagueta
  10. malagueta chili
  11. malagueta chilis

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