9 Letter Words for Demurring
demurring, murdering
8 Letter Words for Demurring
demuring, ungrimed
7 Letter Words for Demurring
dungier, durgier, emuring, grinder, murrine, regrind, unmired, unrimed
6 Letter Words for Demurring
dering, dinger, diurne, dunger, durgen, during, durrin, engird, engrid, erring, germin, gerund, girder, girned, girner, greund, grimed, gruine, guider, guinde, gundie, gurned, indure, ingrum, inured, mering, minder, minged, mudger, munger, murder, murein, murine, muring, murren, murrin, nerium, nudger, reding, redrug, regird, regnum, remind, rering, ridger, rignum, ringed, ringer, rueing, rugine, ruined, ruiner, runrig, ungird, ungrid, unride, urined
5 Letter Words for Demurring
degum, deign, demur, denim, derig, derri, digne, digue, dimer, diner, dinge, direr, dirge, diurn, dreng, drier, drung, duing, egrid, emigr, ering, gerim, girru, gnide, grein, gride, grime, grind, grued, grume, guide, gundi, inerm, ingem, inger, inure, irred, irreg, meuni, midge, mined, miner, minge, mired, mudge, mudir, munge, mured, murid, murre, nidge, niger, nuder, nudge, nudie, redig, redug, regin, regur, reign, reird, rendu, renig, rerig, rerun, riden, rider, ridge, rimed, rimer, ringe, ruder, rudge, rudie, ruing, rumen, runed, runer, under, undig, undim, unred, unrid, unrig, ureid, urged, urger, urine, urned
4 Letter Words for Demurring
degu, demi, deni, derm, dern, diem, dier, dime, dine, ding, dire, dreg, drie, drug, drum, duer, duim, dune, dung, durn, durr, emir, engr, erin, gein, geir, genu, germ, geum, gied, gien, gird, gire, girn, girr, gneu, gren, grid, grim, grin, grue, grum, grun, gude, guid, gumi, gurn, gurr, idem, idun, inde, ired, iure, mein, mend, meng, menu, merd, meri, mide, midn, mien, mind, mine, ming, mird, mire, muid, muir, mund, mung, muni, mure, murr, nerd, neum, nide, nied, nude, nurd, nurr, regd, regr, reim, rein, rend, rgen, ride, riem, rier, rime, rimu, rind, rine, ring, rude, rued, ruen, ruer, ruin, rume, rund, rune, rung, unde, unie, urde, urge, urim
3 Letter Words for Demurring
deg, dei, dem, den, der, die, dig, dim, din, dir, due, dug, dui, dum, dun, dur, eir, emu, end, eng, erd, erg, ern, err, ged, gem, gen, ger, gid, gie, gim, gin, gnu, grr, gud, gue, gui, gum, gun, gur, ide, ign, imu, ind, ing, ire, iud, med, meg, mei, men, mer, meu, mgd, mgr, mid, mig, min, mir, mrd, mri, mud, mug, mun, ned, neg, nei, nid, nie, nig, nim, num, nur, red, reg, rei, rem, rid, rie, rig, rim, rin, rnd, rud, rue, rug, rum, run, ume, ung, uni, urd, ure, urn
Definitions for Demurring
[1] to make objection, especially on the grounds of scruples; take exception; object: They wanted to make him the treasurer, but he demurred.
[2] Law . to interpose a demurrer.
[3] Archaic . to linger; hesitate.
[4] the act of making objection.
[5] an objection raised.
[6] hesitation.
[7] Law . Obsolete . a demurrer.
[8] to raise objections or show reluctance; object
[9] law to raise an objection by entering a demurrer
[10] archaic to hesitate; delay
[11] the act of demurring
[12] an objection raised
[13] archaic hesitation
Words related to Demurring
demurhesitate, vacillate, waver, pussyfoot, disapprove, resist, strain, protest, scruple, pause, fight, doubt, dispute, cavil, balk, combat, object, stick, complain, refuse
Words nearby Demurring
demurdempsey, dempster, demucosation, demulcent, demulsify, demur, demure, demurrage, demurral, demurrer, demuth
Origin of Demurring
1175–1225; Middle English demuren < Anglo-French demurer, Old French demorer < Latin dēmorārī to linger, equivalent to dē- de- + morārī to delay, derivative of mora delay
Words that may be confused with Demurring
WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, demurdemur, demure
Other words from Demurring
de·mur·ra·ble , adjective
un·de·mur·ring , adjective
Word origin for Demurring
C13: from Old French demorer, from Latin dēmorārī to loiter, linger, from morārī to delay, from mora a delay
Synonyms for Demurring
hesitate, vacillate, waver, balk, cavil, challenge, combat, complain, deprecate, disapprove, dispute, doubt, fight, object, oppose, pause, protest, pussyfoot, refuse, remonstrate, resist, scruple, shy, stick, stickle, strain, hem and haw, take exception, wait and see
