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uring

uring is the present participle and gerund of ure.

Meaning of ure

Verb

ure (third-person singular simple present ures, present participle uring, simple past and past participle ured)

  1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
    • […] the French soldiers […] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms […]1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37

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Questions about uring

What is uring the present participle and gerund of?
Uring is the present participle and gerund of ure.

Words near uring in the dictionary

  1. urinelike
  2. urinemia
  3. urinemias
  4. urinemic
  5. urines
  6. uring
  7. uriniferous
  8. urining
  9. uriniparous
  10. urino-
  11. urinocentesis

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