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stranging

stranging is the present participle and gerund of strange.

Meaning of strange

Verb

strange (third-person singular simple present stranges, present participle stranging, simple past and past participle stranged)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To alienate; to estrange.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be estranged or alienated.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To wonder; to be astonished at (something).
    • [I]f the world and motion were not from Eternity, then God was Idle; were all the Aſſertions of Ariſtotle, which Theology pronounceth impieties. Which yet we need not ſtrange at from one, of whom a Father ſaith, Nec Deum coluit nec curavit [he neither worshipped nor cared for God]: […]1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XIX, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 184

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Questions about stranging

What is stranging the present participle and gerund of?
Stranging is the present participle and gerund of strange.

Words near stranging in the dictionary

  1. strangification
  2. strangified
  3. strangifies
  4. strangify
  5. strangifying
  6. stranging
  7. Strangio
  8. Strangios
  9. Strangite
  10. Strangites
  11. strangle

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