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sickering

sickering is the present participle and gerund of sicker.

Meaning of sicker

Verb

sicker (third-person singular simple present sickers, present participle sickering, simple past and past participle sickered)

  1. (figuratively, intransitive, literal) To percolate, trickle, or seep; to ooze, as water through a crack.
    • No drop of water fell from the hot blue
      Or sickered from the skeleton of earth.1917, Gerhart Hauptmann, Ludwig Lewisohn, The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, volume 7, page 185

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Questions about sickering

What is sickering the present participle and gerund of?
Sickering is the present participle and gerund of sicker.

Words near sickering in the dictionary

  1. sickeningness
  2. sickenings
  3. sickens
  4. sicker
  5. sickered
  6. sickering
  7. sickerly
  8. sickerness
  9. sickers
  10. Sickert
  11. Sickertian

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