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untreasuring

untreasuring is the present participle and gerund of untreasure.

Meaning of untreasure

Verb

untreasure (third-person singular simple present untreasures, present participle untreasuring, simple past and past participle untreasured)

  1. (obsolete, poetic, transitive) To despoil of treasure.
    • When Cluffe […] returned to the drawing-room, […] he was a good deal chagrined to find the drawing-room 'untreasured of its mistress.'1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
  2. (obsolete, poetic, transitive) To display or set forth.
    • J. Mitford
      the quaintness with which he untreasured, as by rote, the stores of his memory

Questions about untreasuring

What is untreasuring the present participle and gerund of?
Untreasuring is the present participle and gerund of untreasure.

Words near untreasuring in the dictionary

  1. untreasonable
  2. untreasonous
  3. untreasure
  4. untreasured
  5. untreasures
  6. untreasuring
  7. untreatability
  8. untreatable
  9. untreatableness
  10. untreatables
  11. untreatably

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Adapted from Wiktionary: untreasuring (page history and authors); untreasure (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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