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Definition: AUGURING |
AUGURINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Augur |
Date "AUGURING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1607. (references) |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Contemplating the union of sentiment now manifested so generally as auguring harmony and happiness to our future course, I offer to our country sincere congratulations. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "AUGURING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | prophezeiend (boding, predicting, presaging, prophesying). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | auguringay предвещать (bespeak, bode, forebode, foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, harbinger, portend, presage). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"AUGURING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agbrigg, augering, augerunt, auguri. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AUGURING" (pronounced ô"gering) |
| 4 | -g er i ng | angering, beleaguering, fingering, hungering, lingering, mongering, rejiggering, staggering, swaggering, triggering, warmongering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, anchoring, answering, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-n-r-u-u" | |
-1 letter: arguing. | |
-2 letters: raging, urging. | |
-3 letters: aging, augur, garni, grain, ruing, unrig. | |
-4 letters: agin, airn, gain, gang, gaun, gaur, giga, girn, gnar, gran, grig, grin, guan, guar, guru, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring, ruga, ruin, rung, unai, unau. | |
-5 letters: ain, air, ani, gag, gan, gar, gig, gin, gnu, gun, nag, rag, ran, ria, rig, rin, rug. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-i-n-r-u-u" | |
+2 letters: outarguing, unguarding. | |
+3 letters: fulgurating. | |
+4 letters: inaugurating. | |
+5 letters: unencouraging. | |
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