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spiritening

spiritening is the present participle and gerund of spiriten.

Meaning of spiriten

Verb

spiriten (third-person singular simple present spiritens, present participle spiritening, simple past and past participle spiritened)

  1. (ambitransitive, dialectal) To endue, enliven, or raise the spirit of; liven.
    • Some traders would give 'em shots, feed 'em dynamite, make these old dead horses spiriten up. Take a piece of a stick of dynamite and mash it up in their feed. They say it'll spiriten 'em up. I've tried it, but I didn't think it done much good.2011, Foxfire Fund, Inc., Eliot Wigginton, Foxfire 4

Questions about spiritening

What is spiritening the present participle and gerund of?
Spiritening is the present participle and gerund of spiriten.

Words near spiritening in the dictionary

  1. spirited off
  2. spiritedly
  3. spiritedness
  4. spiriten
  5. spiritened
  6. spiritening
  7. spiritens
  8. spiriter
  9. spiriters
  10. spiritess
  11. spiritesses

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