"fearmong" meaning in English

See fearmong in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: fearmongs [present, singular, third-person], fearmonging [participle, present], fearmonged [participle, past], fearmonged [past]
Etymology: Back-formation from fearmonger. Etymology templates: {{back-form|en|fearmonger}} Back-formation from fearmonger Head templates: {{en-verb}} fearmong (third-person singular simple present fearmongs, present participle fearmonging, simple past and past participle fearmonged)
  1. (intransitive) Misconstruction of fearmonger. Tags: alt-of, intransitive, misconstruction Alternative form of: fearmonger
    Sense id: en-fearmong-en-verb-9~FAGtRJ Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header, English misconstructions

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for fearmong meaning in English (2.2kB)

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