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sturting

sturting is the present participle and gerund of sturt.

Meaning of sturt

Verb

sturt (third-person singular simple present sturts, present participle sturting, simple past and past participle sturted)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To vex; to annoy; to startle.
  2. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete) To start with fear.

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Questions about sturting

What is sturting the present participle and gerund of?
Sturting is the present participle and gerund of sturt.

Words near sturting in the dictionary

  1. Sturt's desert rose
  2. sturted
  3. Sturtevant
  4. Sturtevants
  5. Sturtian
  6. sturting
  7. sturtite
  8. Sturton by Stow
  9. Sturton le Steeple
  10. sturts
  11. Sturtz

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sturting (page history and authors); sturt (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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