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mutining

mutining is the present participle and gerund of mutine.

Meaning of mutine

Verb

mutine (third-person singular simple present mutines, present participle mutining, simple past and past participle mutined)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To rise up in revolt; to mutiny, to rebel.
    • They gan to gather in tumultuous rout, / And mutining to stirre up civill faction / For certaine losse of so great expectation […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about mutining

What is mutining the present participle and gerund of?
Mutining is the present participle and gerund of mutine.

Words near mutining in the dictionary

  1. mutines
  2. muting
  3. mutings
  4. mutinied
  5. mutinies
  6. mutining
  7. mutinize
  8. mutinized
  9. mutinizes
  10. mutinizing
  11. mutinous

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