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surbating

surbating is the present participle and gerund of surbate.

Meaning of surbate

Verb

surbate (third-person singular simple present surbates, present participle surbating, simple past and past participle surbated)

  1. (obsolete) To bruise, hurt (the feet, hooves etc.) from walking.
    • they […] let their temed fishes softly swim / Along the margent of the fomy shore, / Least they their finnes should bruze, and surbate sore / Their tender feet vpon the stony ground […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about surbating

What is surbating the present participle and gerund of?
Surbating is the present participle and gerund of surbate.

Words near surbating in the dictionary

  1. surbases
  2. surbasing
  3. surbate
  4. surbated
  5. surbates
  6. surbating
  7. surbeat
  8. surbeated
  9. surbeaten
  10. surbeating
  11. surbeats

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