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scruzing

scruzing is the present participle and gerund of scruze.

Meaning of scruze

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

Questions about scruzing

What is scruzing the present participle and gerund of?
Scruzing is the present participle and gerund of scruze.

Words near scruzing in the dictionary

  1. scrutores
  2. Scrutton
  3. scruze
  4. scruzed
  5. scruzes
  6. scruzing
  7. scry
  8. scryer
  9. scryers
  10. scrying
  11. scrying glass

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