Word.ws English Dictionary

restemming

restemming is the present participle and gerund of restem.

Meaning of restem

Verb

restem (third-person singular simple present restems, present participle restemming, simple past and past participle restemmed)

  1. To force back against the current.
    • to restem their backward coursec. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
  2. To stem, or move against.
    • to restem a current

Questions about restemming

What is restemming the present participle and gerund of?
Restemming is the present participle and gerund of restem.

Words near restemming in the dictionary

  1. resteered
  2. resteering
  3. resteers
  4. restem
  5. restemmed
  6. restemming
  7. restems
  8. restenoses
  9. restenosis
  10. restenostic
  11. restenotic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: restemming (page history and authors); restem (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “restemming.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/restemming. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.