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untrilling

untrilling is the present participle and gerund of untrill.

Meaning of untrill

Verb

untrill (third-person singular simple present untrills, present participle untrilling, simple past and past participle untrilled)

  1. (transitive) To remove the trill from.
    • Even in such a language as German some one must have begun to make his [r] into a back sound, and to untrill it, and it was only gradually that the change spread through whole communities.1994, Dugald Stewart, Comparativist Controversies, volumes 1-2, page 28

Questions about untrilling

What is untrilling the present participle and gerund of?
Untrilling is the present participle and gerund of untrill.

Words near untrilling in the dictionary

  1. untriggers
  2. untrigintillion
  3. untrihexium
  4. untrill
  5. untrilled
  6. untrilling
  7. untrills
  8. untrim
  9. untrimmable
  10. untrimmed
  11. untrimmedness

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