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obduring

obduring is the present participle and gerund of obdure.

Meaning of obdure

Verb

obdure (third-person singular simple present obdures, present participle obduring, simple past and past participle obdured)

  1. (obsolete) To harden.
    • This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdur'd.1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

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Questions about obduring

What is obduring the present participle and gerund of?
Obduring is the present participle and gerund of obdure.

Words near obduring in the dictionary

  1. obdurators
  2. obdure
  3. obdured
  4. obduredness
  5. obdures
  6. obduring
  7. obe
  8. obe ata
  9. obea
  10. obeah
  11. obeah doctor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: obduring (page history and authors); obdure (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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