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scruze

scruze verb: to squeeze.

Verb

scruze (third-person singular simple present scruzes, present participle scruzing, simple past and past participle scruzed)

  1. (dialectal) To squeeze.
    • with her right the riper fruit did reach, / Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnesse sweld, / Into her cup she scruzd […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of scruze

third-person singular presentscruzes
present participlescruzing
past participlescruzed
pastscruzed

Origin of scruze

Perhaps an irregular blend of screw + squeeze.

Questions about scruze

What does scruze mean?
Scruze means to squeeze.
What part of speech is scruze?
Scruze is a verb.
What is the past tense of scruze?
The past tense of scruze is scruzed.

Words near scruze in the dictionary

  1. Scrutonian
  2. Scrutons
  3. scrutore
  4. scrutores
  5. Scrutton
  6. scruze
  7. scruzed
  8. scruzes
  9. scruzing
  10. scry
  11. scryer

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