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refelling

refelling is the present participle and gerund of refel.

Meaning of refel

Verb

refel (third-person singular simple present refels, present participle refelling, simple past and past participle refelled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).
    • Averroes scoffs at Galen for his reasons, and brings five arguments to refel them: so doth Hercules de Saxonia […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section...

Questions about refelling

What is refelling the present participle and gerund of?
Refelling is the present participle and gerund of refel.

Words near refelling in the dictionary

  1. refeeling
  2. refeels
  3. refel
  4. refell
  5. refelled
  6. refelling
  7. refels
  8. refelt
  9. refelted
  10. refelting
  11. refelts

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