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obducting

obducting is the present participle and gerund of obduct.

Meaning of obduct

Verb

obduct (third-person singular simple present obducts, present participle obducting, simple past and past participle obducted)

  1. (obsolete) To draw over; to cover.
    • men are left-handed when ever it happeneth that the Heart and Liver are seated on the left for when the liver is on the right side, yet so obducted and covered with thick skins.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
  2. To push over or on top of, such as one tectonic plate being pushed over another.

Questions about obducting

What is obducting the present participle and gerund of?
Obducting is the present participle and gerund of obduct.

Words near obducting in the dictionary

  1. OBDs
  2. obdt
  3. obduce
  4. obduct
  5. obducted
  6. obducting
  7. obduction
  8. obductions
  9. obducts
  10. obduracies
  11. obduracy

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