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rencountering

rencountering is the present participle and gerund of rencounter.

Meaning of rencounter

Verb

rencounter (third-person singular simple present rencounters, present participle rencountering, simple past and past participle rencountered)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To meet, encounter, come into contact with.
  2. (obsolete) To attack hand to hand.
    • Tho, whenas still he saw him towards pace,
      He gan rencounter him in equall race1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about rencountering

What is rencountering the present participle and gerund of?
Rencountering is the present participle and gerund of rencounter.

Words near rencountering in the dictionary

  1. rencontred
  2. rencontres
  3. rencontring
  4. rencounter
  5. rencountered
  6. rencountering
  7. rencounters
  8. rend
  9. rend one's garments
  10. Renda
  11. rendaku

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