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vivaing

vivaing is the present participle and gerund of viva.

Meaning of viva

Verb (1)

viva (third-person singular simple present vivas, present participle vivaing, simple past and past participle vivaed)

  1. (ambitransitive, dated) To cheer, applaud
    • ...the people clapped and vivaed, groaned and hooted, as they were pleased or disappointed, until at length the intense excitement began to subside...1841, Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar, A winter in the Azores, and a summer at the baths of the Furnas

Verb (2)

viva (third-person singular simple present vivas, present participle vivaing, simple past and past participle vivaed)

  1. (transitive) To subject to an examination of this kind.
    • I was vivaed by Charles Cannan, who was then a Fellow of Trinity...1931, Henry Sanderson Furniss Sanderson, Memories of sixty years

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Questions about vivaing

What is vivaing the present participle and gerund of?
Vivaing is the present participle and gerund of viva.

Words near vivaing in the dictionary

  1. vivaciously
  2. vivaciousness
  3. vivacities
  4. vivacity
  5. vivaed
  6. vivaing
  7. Vivaldi
  8. Vivaldian
  9. Vivanco
  10. Vivancos
  11. vivandier

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