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oping

oping is the present participle and gerund of ope.

Meaning of ope

Verb

ope (third-person singular simple present opes, present participle oping, simple past and past participle oped)

  1. (ambitransitive, dialectal, poetic, otherwise archaic) To open.
    • Ere I ope his letter, / I pray you, tell me how my good friend doth.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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Questions about oping

What is oping the present participle and gerund of?
Oping is the present participle and gerund of ope.

Words near oping in the dictionary

  1. opined
  2. opiner
  3. opiners
  4. opines
  5. opineth
  6. oping
  7. opiniaster
  8. opiniasters
  9. opiniastrety
  10. opiniastrous
  11. opiniate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oping (page history and authors); ope (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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