| aching | (noun) a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain | Synonyms: ache |
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| approaching | (noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approach, coming |
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| (noun) the temporal property of becoming nearer in time | Synonyms: approach, coming |
| (noun) the event of one object coming closer to another | Synonyms: approach |
| bathing | (noun) immersing the body in water or sunshine | - |
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| (noun) the act of washing yourself (or another person) | Synonyms: washup |
| belching | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, burp, burping, eructation |
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| (noun) the forceful expulsion of something from inside | - |
| birthing | (noun) the process of giving birth | Synonyms: birth, giving birth, parturition |
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| brainwashing | (noun) forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
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| branching | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: fork, forking, ramification |
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| breathing | (noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: external respiration, respiration, ventilation |
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| brushing | (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brush |
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| (noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brush |
| bushing | (noun) a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction | Synonyms: cylindrical lining |
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| (noun) an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass | - |
| catching | (noun) (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team | - |
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| (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: detection, espial, spotting, spying |
| (noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: contracting |
| clothing | (noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable |
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| coaching | (noun) the job of a professional coach | Synonyms: coaching job |
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| coughing | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: cough |
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| crushing | (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: quelling, stifling, suppression |
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| demolishing | (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: leveling, razing, tearing down |
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| dishwashing | (noun) the act of washing dishes | Synonyms: washup |
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| drenching | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: soaking, souse, sousing |
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| earthing | (noun) fastening electrical equipment to earth | Synonyms: grounding |
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| etching | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: engraving |
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| (noun) an etched plate made with the use of acid | - |
| (noun) an impression made from an etched plate | - |
| everything | (noun) all things that are of importance to a person | - |
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| extinguishing | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, quenching |
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| farthing | (noun) a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny | - |
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| finishing | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finish |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finish |
| fishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: sportfishing |
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| (noun) the occupation of catching fish for a living | - |
| flashing | (noun) sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing | - |
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| (noun) a short vivid experience | Synonyms: flash |
| furnishing | (noun) the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc. | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: trappings |
| hatching | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatch |
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| (noun) the production of young from an egg | Synonyms: hatch |
| hemstitching | (noun) a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups | Synonyms: hemstitch |
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| hushing | (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hiss, hissing, sibilation |
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| itching | (noun) an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch | Synonyms: itch, itchiness |
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| lashing | (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flagellation, flogging, tanning, whipping |
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| (noun) rope that is used for fastening something to something else | - |
| launching | (noun) the act of propelling with force | Synonyms: launch |
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| (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: debut, entry, first appearance, introduction, unveiling |
| (noun) the act of moving a newly built vessel into the water for the first time | - |
| leaching | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leach |
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| loathing | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, odium |
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| lunching | (noun) the act of eating lunch | - |
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| lynching | (noun) putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law | - |
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| marching | (noun) the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind) | Synonyms: march |
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| meshing | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, interlocking, mesh |
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| (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshwork, net, network |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, interlocking, mesh |
| nothing | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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| patching | (noun) the act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it | - |
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| pitching | (noun) (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team | - |
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| (noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: lurch, pitch |
| plaything | (noun) an artifact designed to be played with | Synonyms: toy |
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| ploughing | (noun) tilling the land with a plow | Synonyms: plowing |
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| poaching | (noun) cooking in simmering liquid | - |
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| polishing | (noun) the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it | Synonyms: shining |
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| preaching | (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: discourse, sermon |
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| (noun) a moralistic rebuke | Synonyms: sermon |
| publishing | (noun) the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution | Synonyms: publication |
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| pushing | (noun) the act of applying force in order to move something away | Synonyms: push |
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| quenching | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, extinguishing |
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| ranching | (noun) farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle) | - |
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| reaching | (noun) accomplishment of an objective | Synonyms: arrival |
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| (noun) the act of physically reaching or thrusting out | Synonyms: reach, stretch |
| relinquishing | (noun) the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc. | Synonyms: relinquishment |
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| (noun) a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc. | Synonyms: relinquishment |
| relishing | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, savoring, savouring, tasting |
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| republishing | (noun) the act of publishing again | Synonyms: republication |
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| rushing | (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line | Synonyms: rush |
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| (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, hurry, rush |
| scratching | (noun) a harsh noise made by scraping | Synonyms: scrape, scraping, scratch |
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| screeching | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, shriek, shrieking |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, shriek, shrieking |
| sheathing | (noun) protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior | Synonyms: overlay, overlayer |
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| sleuthing | (noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detecting, detection, detective work |
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| sloughing | (noun) the process whereby something is shed | Synonyms: shedding |
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| smashing | (noun) the act of breaking something into small pieces | Synonyms: shattering |
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| smooching | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, snuggling |
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| splashing | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splash, splattering |
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| (noun) the act of scattering water about haphazardly | Synonyms: splash |
| sportfishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: fishing |
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| stitching | (noun) joining or attaching by stitches | Synonyms: sewing |
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| stretching | (noun) exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent | Synonyms: stretch |
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| (noun) act of expanding by lengthening or widening | - |
| swathing | (noun) cloth coverings wrapped around something (as a wound or a baby) | - |
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| switching | (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: shift, switch |
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| teaching | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: instruction, pedagogy |
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| (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy |
| (noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: commandment, precept |
| teething | (noun) the eruption through the gums of baby teeth | Synonyms: dentition, odontiasis |
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| thing | (noun) a separate and self-contained entity | - |
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| (noun) an action | - |
| (noun) an artifact | - |
| (noun) an entity that is not named specifically | - |
| (noun) any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence | - |
| (noun) a special abstraction | - |
| (noun) a special objective | - |
| (noun) a vaguely specified concern | Synonyms: affair, matter |
| (noun) a statement regarded as an object | - |
| (noun) an event | - |
| (noun) a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion | - |
| (noun) a special situation | - |
| thrashing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| threshing | (noun) the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw | - |
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| touching | (noun) the act of putting two things together with no space between them | Synonyms: touch |
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| (noun) the event of something coming in contact with the body | Synonyms: touch |
| twitching | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitch, vellication |
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| underclothing | (noun) undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments | Synonyms: underclothes, underwear |
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| vanishing | (noun) a sudden disappearance from sight | - |
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| (noun) a sudden or mysterious disappearance | - |
| washing | (noun) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | Synonyms: lavation, wash |
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| (noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | Synonyms: laundry, wash, washables |
| watching | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observance, observation |
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| weighing | (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: advisement, deliberation |
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| whipstitching | (noun) a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally | Synonyms: whipping, whipstitch |
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| wishing | (noun) a specific feeling of desire | Synonyms: want, wish |
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| witching | (noun) the use or practice of witchcraft | - |
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