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smooring

smooring is the present participle and gerund of smoor.

Meaning of smoor

Verb

smoor (third-person singular simple present smoors, present participle smooring, simple past and past participle smoored)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete, transitive) To suffocate, smother, or extinguish
    • smoor the fire

Questions about smooring

What is smooring the present participle and gerund of?
Smooring is the present participle and gerund of smoor.

Words near smooring in the dictionary

  1. smooged
  2. smooges
  3. smooging
  4. smoor
  5. smoored
  6. smooring
  7. smoors
  8. smoosh
  9. smooshable
  10. smooshed
  11. smooshes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smooring (page history and authors); smoor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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