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ushing

ushing is the present participle and gerund of ush.

Meaning of ush

Verb

ush (third-person singular simple present ushes, present participle ushing, simple past and past participle ushed)

  1. (colloquial, intransitive, rare, transitive) To usher: to perform the action of an usher: to escort.
    • And she is Mrs. Freundlich’s dear friend, so old Mark, who was acting as usher, ushed her and Mrs. Preene to seats right up in front next to Claire so Mrs. Shaw could scope out everything I did.2000, Jonathan Pearce, John-Browne's Body and Sole: A Semester of Life, BalonaBooks, published 2006, →ISBN, page 142

Questions about ushing

What is ushing the present participle and gerund of?
Ushing is the present participle and gerund of ush.

Words near ushing in the dictionary

  1. ushes
  2. Ushiku
  3. ushikulide
  4. ushikulides
  5. ushikuvirus
  6. ushing
  7. ushioni
  8. ushiromotare
  9. Ushkoff
  10. ushkovite
  11. ushkuinik

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ushing (page history and authors); ush (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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