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onwent

onwent is the simple past of ongo.

Meaning of ongo

Verb

ongo (third-person singular simple present ongoes, present participle ongoing, simple past onwent, past participle ongone)

  1. To be ongoing (occurring, happening); to last, proceed or continue.
    • And it ongoes far longer than Bill had intended.1981, Colin Fletcher, The Man from the Cave, page 164

Questions about onwent

What is onwent the simple past of?
Onwent is the simple past of ongo.

Words near onwent in the dictionary

  1. onwarding
  2. onwardly
  3. onwardness
  4. onwards
  5. onwards and upwards
  6. onwent
  7. onwiki
  8. onwing
  9. ony
  10. onya
  11. onyalai

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onwent (page history and authors); ongo (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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