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quitching

quitching is the present participle and gerund of quitch.

Meaning of quitch

Verb

quitch (third-person singular simple present quitches, present participle quitching, simple past and past participle quitched)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To shake (something); to stir, move.
  2. (UK, intransitive, regional) To stir; to move.
    • With a strong yron chaine and coller bound, / That once he could not move, nor quich at all […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (intransitive) To flinch; shrink.

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Questions about quitching

What is quitching the present participle and gerund of?
Quitching is the present participle and gerund of quitch.

Words near quitching in the dictionary

  1. quitch
  2. quitch grass
  3. quitched
  4. quitches
  5. quitchgrass
  6. quitching
  7. quitclaim
  8. quitclaim deed
  9. quitclaim deeds
  10. quitclaimed
  11. quitclaiming

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