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vinegaring

vinegaring is the present participle and gerund of vinegar.

Meaning of vinegar

Verb

vinegar (third-person singular simple present vinegars, present participle vinegaring, simple past and past participle vinegared)

  1. (transitive) To season or otherwise treat with vinegar.
    • Accordingly, after a vast amount of moaning and crying up-stairs, and much damping of foreheads, and vinegaring of temples, and hartshorning of noses, and so forth […]1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 19.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC

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Questions about vinegaring

What is vinegaring the present participle and gerund of?
Vinegaring is the present participle and gerund of vinegar.

Words near vinegaring in the dictionary

  1. vinegarer
  2. vinegarers
  3. vinegarette
  4. vinegarettes
  5. vinegariness
  6. vinegaring
  7. vinegarish
  8. vinegarishly
  9. vinegarishness
  10. vinegarist
  11. vinegarists

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