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orphanizing

orphanizing is the present participle and gerund of orphanize.

Meaning of orphanize

Verb

orphanize (third-person singular simple present orphanizes, present participle orphanizing, simple past and past participle orphanized)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To orphan.
    • But you would orphanize creation, deny that God is the Father of all spirits, and forbid needy, lost man to address him as such.1838, Alexander Campbell, William Kimbrough Pendleton, Charles Louis Loos, The Millennial Harbinger

Questions about orphanizing

What is orphanizing the present participle and gerund of?
Orphanizing is the present participle and gerund of orphanize.

Words near orphanizing in the dictionary

  1. orphanism
  2. orphanity
  3. orphanize
  4. orphanized
  5. orphanizes
  6. orphanizing
  7. orphanlike
  8. orphanotrophia
  9. orphanotrophies
  10. orphanotrophism
  11. orphanotrophium

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