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spersing

spersing is the present participle and gerund of sperse.

Meaning of sperse

Verb

sperse (third-person singular simple present sperses, present participle spersing, simple past and past participle spersed)

  1. (obsolete) To disperse.
    • On all which did against his course oppose,
      Into a cloud of dust spers'd in the air1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Visions of Bellay”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC

Questions about spersing

What is spersing the present participle and gerund of?
Spersing is the present participle and gerund of sperse.

Words near spersing in the dictionary

  1. Sperrys
  2. Spers
  3. sperse
  4. spersed
  5. sperses
  6. spersing
  7. spertiniite
  8. SPEs
  9. spes phthisica
  10. spesh
  11. speshul

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spersing (page history and authors); sperse (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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