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perhorresces

perhorresces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of perhorresce.

Meaning of perhorresce

Verb

perhorresce (third-person singular simple present perhorresces, present participle perhorrescing, simple past and past participle perhorresced)

  1. (ambitransitive, formal, rare) To shudder (at).
    • This we may ascribe to the ‘d—d nonsense’ perhorresced by Mr. Lockhart.1865, James Hutchison Stirling, The Secret of Hegel, volume I, London, page xxxii

Questions about perhorresces

What is perhorresces the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Perhorresces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of perhorresce.

Words near perhorresces in the dictionary

  1. perhexiline
  2. perhexilline
  3. PERHILITAN
  4. perhorresce
  5. perhorresced
  6. perhorresces
  7. perhorrescing
  8. perhumid
  9. perhydrate
  10. perhydrates
  11. perhydro

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