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shrewing

shrewing is the present participle and gerund of shrew.

Meaning of shrew

Verb

shrew (third-person singular simple present shrews, present participle shrewing, simple past and past participle shrewed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To beshrew; to curse.
    • I shrew myself.1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story via the 'title' parameter)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne]...

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Questions about shrewing

What is shrewing the present participle and gerund of?
Shrewing is the present participle and gerund of shrew.

Words near shrewing in the dictionary

  1. shrewdness
  2. shrewdnesses
  3. shrewdom
  4. shrewdy
  5. shrewed
  6. shrewing
  7. shrewish
  8. shrewishly
  9. shrewishness
  10. Shrewley
  11. shrewlike

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