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warraying

warraying is the present participle and gerund of warray.

Meaning of warray

Verb

warray (third-person singular simple present warrays, present participle warraying, simple past and past participle warrayed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To wage war against.
    • And them long time before, great Nimrod was,
      That first the world with sword and fire warrayd […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about warraying

What is warraying the present participle and gerund of?
Warraying is the present participle and gerund of warray.

Words near warraying in the dictionary

  1. Warrawee
  2. Warrawidgee
  3. Warrawong
  4. warray
  5. warrayed
  6. warraying
  7. warrays
  8. Warrayure
  9. Warrazambil Creek
  10. warre
  11. warred

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