| shoemaking | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: cobbling, shoe repairing |
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| shrieking | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
| shrinking | (noun) the act of becoming less | - |
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| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinkage |
| sinking | (noun) a descent as through liquid (especially through water) | - |
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| (noun) a slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength) | - |
| (noun) a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension | Synonyms: sinking feeling |
| skulking | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: malingering |
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| slacking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, soldiering |
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| sleepwalking | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulation, somnambulism |
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| smacking | (noun) the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand | Synonyms: slap, smack |
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| smocking | (noun) embroidery consisting of ornamental needlework on a garment that is made by gathering the cloth tightly in stitches | - |
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| smoking | (noun) the act of smoking tobacco or other substances | Synonyms: smoke |
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| (noun) a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion | Synonyms: smoke |
| soaking | (noun) washing something by allowing it to soak | Synonyms: soak |
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| (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: drenching, souse, sousing |
| (noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soak, soakage |
| spanking | (noun) the act of slapping on the buttocks | - |
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| speaking | (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speechmaking |
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| (noun) the utterance of intelligible speech | Synonyms: speech production |
| speechmaking | (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speaking |
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| stalking | (noun) the act of following prey stealthily | Synonyms: stalk |
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| (noun) a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush | Synonyms: stalk, still hunt |
| stocking | (noun) the activity of supplying a stock of something | - |
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| (noun) close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural) | - |
| stocktaking | (noun) making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand | Synonyms: inventory, inventorying, stock-taking |
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| (noun) reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook | Synonyms: stock-taking |
| strikebreaking | (noun) confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers | - |
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| striking | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, hitting |
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| (noun) the physical coming together of two or more things | Synonyms: contact, impinging |
| stroking | (noun) a light touch with the hands | Synonyms: stroke |
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| sucking | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: suck, suction |
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| tacking | (noun) (nautical) the act of changing tack | Synonyms: tack |
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| (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting, basting stitch |
| taking | (noun) the act of someone who picks up or takes something | Synonyms: pickings |
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| talking | (noun) an exchange of ideas via conversation | Synonyms: talk |
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| teleworking | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: telecommuting |
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| thinking | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, mentation, thought, thought process |
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| ticking | (noun) a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers | - |
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| (noun) a metallic tapping sound | Synonyms: tick |
| tracking | (noun) the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind | Synonyms: trailing |
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| trucking | (noun) the activity of transporting goods by truck | Synonyms: hauling, truckage |
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| undertaking | (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, labour, project, task |
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| (noun) the trade of a funeral director | - |
| unmasking | (noun) the exposure of an impostor or a fraud | Synonyms: expose |
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| waking | (noun) the state of remaining awake | - |
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| walking | (noun) the act of traveling by foot | Synonyms: walk |
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| whacking | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing |
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| winemaking | (noun) the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine | Synonyms: wine making |
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| winking | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink |
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| woodworking | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: carpentry, woodwork |
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| working | (noun) a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked | Synonyms: workings |
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| wrecking | (noun) destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined | Synonyms: laying waste, ruin, ruination, ruining |
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| (noun) the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled | Synonyms: razing |