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What is the verb for king?

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king
  1. To crown king, to make (a person) king.
  2. To rule over as king.
  3. To perform the duties of a king.
  4. To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
  5. To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
  6. To dress and perform as a drag king.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “They would go on to king Richard the Second as Henry The Fourth following his dethronement by Bolingbroke.”
kings
kinged
  1. simple past tense and past participle of king
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  3. Examples:
    1. “For history lovers, Richard the Second was dethroned by Bolingbroke, who was kinged Henry The Fourth.”
      “He kinged it in the coffee-house, then the fashionable place at which the wits gathered, as Jonson had in the tavern.”
kinging
  1. present participle of king
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I have always been drawn to physical transformation and saw drag kinging as a welcome challenge, particularly because I identified and presented as femme at the time.”
      “Second, Mentor combined the wisdom of experience with the sensitivity of a fawn in his attempts to convey kinging skills to young Telemachus.”
      “He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.”
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