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pemmicanizing

pemmicanizing is the present participle and gerund of pemmicanize.

Meaning of pemmicanize

Verb

pemmicanize (third-person singular simple present pemmicanizes, present participle pemmicanizing, simple past and past participle pemmicanized)

  1. To make pemmican out of; to dry and beat into a paste, possibly combining with fat and berries.
    • The only modes of preservation of food I am familiar with are drying and pemmicanizing; both of these accompliehsed by the heat of fire or sun, without any salt or ingredient of any kind.1887, Canada. Parliament. Senate, Journals of the Senate of Canada, page 387
  2. To condense; to compress into as succinct a form as possible.
    • His endeavor was to pemmicanize ideas, as the northpole explorers did provisions, that they might be carried about the easier.1845 July 12, “The Late thomas Hood”, in The Living Age, volume 6, number 61, page 64

Questions about pemmicanizing

What is pemmicanizing the present participle and gerund of?
Pemmicanizing is the present participle and gerund of pemmicanize.

Words near pemmicanizing in the dictionary

  1. pemmicanising
  2. pemmicanization
  3. pemmicanize
  4. pemmicanized
  5. pemmicanizes
  6. pemmicanizing
  7. pemmicans
  8. pemoline
  9. pemolines
  10. Pemon
  11. Pemong

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