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muring

muring is the present participle and gerund of mure.

Meaning of mure

Verb

mure (third-person singular simple present mures, present participle muring, simple past and past participle mured)

  1. (obsolete) to wall in or fortify
  2. (archaic) To enclose or imprison within walls.
    • Therewith he mured up his mouth along,
      And therein shut up his blasphemous tong1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about muring

What is muring the present participle and gerund of?
Muring is the present participle and gerund of mure.

Words near muring in the dictionary

  1. Murimo
  2. Murinbada
  3. Murinbata
  4. murine
  5. murines
  6. muring
  7. muringer
  8. muringers
  9. murinisation
  10. murinise
  11. murinised

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