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undighting

undighting is the present participle and gerund of undight.

Meaning of undight

Verb

undight (third-person singular simple present undights, present participle undighting, simple past and past participle undighted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To take off (a piece of clothing).
    • His mayled haberjeon she did undight, / And from his head his heavy burganet did light.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about undighting

What is undighting the present participle and gerund of?
Undighting is the present participle and gerund of undight.

Words near undighting in the dictionary

  1. undiggable
  2. undigged
  3. undigging
  4. undight
  5. undighted
  6. undighting
  7. undights
  8. undigital
  9. undigitated
  10. undigitized
  11. undignified

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