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turmoiling

turmoiling is the present participle and gerund of turmoil.

Meaning of turmoil

Verb

turmoil (third-person singular simple present turmoils, present participle turmoiling, simple past and past participle turmoiled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
    • some notable sophister lies sweating and turmoiling under the inevitable and merciless delimmas of Socrates1642 April, An Apology against a Pamphlet Call’d A Modest Confutation of the Animadversions upon the Remonstrant against Smectymnuus, London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
    • It is her fatal misfortune […] to be thus miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...

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Questions about turmoiling

What is turmoiling the present participle and gerund of?
Turmoiling is the present participle and gerund of turmoil.

Words near turmoiling in the dictionary

  1. turmits
  2. turmoil
  3. turmoiled
  4. turmoiler
  5. turmoilers
  6. turmoiling
  7. turmoils
  8. turms
  9. turmut
  10. turmuts
  11. turn

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