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roining

roining is the present participle and gerund of roin.

Meaning of roin

Verb

roin (third-person singular simple present roins, present participle roining, simple past and past participle roined)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To growl; to roar.
    • Yet did he murmure with rebellious sound, / And softly royne, when salvage choler gan redound.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about roining

What is roining the present participle and gerund of?
Roining is the present participle and gerund of roin.

Words near roining in the dictionary

  1. roils
  2. roilsome
  3. roily
  4. roin
  5. roined
  6. roining
  7. roinish
  8. roins
  9. ROIP
  10. Roiphe
  11. ROIs

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