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meagring

meagring is the present participle and gerund of meagre.

Meaning of meagre

Verb

meagre (third-person singular simple present meagres, present participle meagring, simple past and past participle meagred)

  1. (Canada, UK, common, transitive) To make lean.
    • I am meagred to a skeleton; my nose is broiled to flaming heat, and I am suffering the greatest inconvenience from the loss of my baggage which I fear the enemy have taken with my servant at Konigsberg.1862, Robert Thomas Wilson, edited by Herbert Randolph, Life of General Sir Robert Wilson, page 275

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Questions about meagring

What is meagring the present participle and gerund of?
Meagring is the present participle and gerund of meagre.

Words near meagring in the dictionary

  1. meagreness
  2. meagrenesses
  3. meagrer
  4. meagres
  5. meagrest
  6. meagring
  7. meagrom
  8. meagroms
  9. meak
  10. Meakin
  11. meaking iron

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meagring (page history and authors); meagre (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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