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spiring meaning

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    Definition of spiring in English Dictionary

  • AdjectiveBFspireSUF-ing
    1. Shooting up in a spire or spires.
      1. The spiring grass. — Drayton.
  • More Examples
    1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
      • A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
      • In 1999, they regilded the spire of the Shwedagon Pagoda, which now glitters with 53 tons of gold and 4,341 diamonds on the crowning orb.
      • His own reluctant namesake, Mount Beckey, rises some 8,500 feet in a largely uncharted subrange near the Cathedral Spires of southeastern Alaska.
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Adjectives
      • Uncomparable adjectives
      • Morphemes
        • Suffixes
          • Words by suffix
            • Words suffixed with -ing

      Other Vocabulary

      Look-Alike Words
      1. en aspiring
      2. en iring
      3. en aspirin
      4. en pairing
      5. en fairing
      Source: Wiktionary

      Meaning of spiring for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "spiring" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe.
      Definiteness: Level 1
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