Verbs you only ever see as a present participle

[Spearmint Rhino]

1. to burgeon

[Wyatt Earp]

Verbs you only ever see as a present participle

2. to overween

[Andy C]

Verbs you only ever see as a present participle

3. to swinge

[evilC]

Verbs you only ever see as a present participle

This is where I, as OTF's forthright-but-uncultured member, am supposed to say...

4. To fuck

...but I'm not going to - not least because it wouldn't be entirely accurate!

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Verbs you only ever see as a present participle

No, you're fucked with that one.

[hobbes]

Verbs you only ever see as a present participle

Yeah, you fucker.

[Ant van Oviedo]

Verbs you only ever see as a present participle

5. to middle

6. to overbear

[Guest]

Verbs you only ever see as a present participle

to Cloy ?

[Andy C]

Verbs you only ever see as a present participle

I'll voice a cricketing objection to "to middle", your honour.

[Ginger Yellow]

Verbs you only ever see as a present participle

Shame on you, Aidan:

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety. Other women cloy
The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies.

[boris]

Verbs you only ever see as a present participle

To w.

[boris]

Verbs you only ever see as a present participle

To yead.

[nefertiti]

Verbs you only ever see as a present participle

to unprepossess

[Heliotrope]

Verbs you only ever see as a present participle

To fleet