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sying

sying is the present participle and gerund of sie.

Meaning of sie

Verb

sie (third-person singular simple present sies, present participle sying, simple past and past participle sied)

  1. (intransitive) To sink; fall; drop.
  2. (intransitive) To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
  3. (dialectal, intransitive) To drop, as water; trickle.
  4. (transitive) To sift.
  5. (dialectal, transitive) To strain, as milk; filter.

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Questions about sying

What is sying the present participle and gerund of?
Sying is the present participle and gerund of sie.

Words near sying in the dictionary

  1. Sygrove
  2. Sygroves
  3. SYHA
  4. Syifa
  5. Syilx
  6. sying
  7. syke
  8. Sykehouse
  9. sykes
  10. Sykes' monkey
  11. Sykes's warbler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sying (page history and authors); sie (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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