| almsgiving | (noun) making voluntary contributions to aid the poor | Synonyms: alms-giving |
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| approving | (noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approval, blessing |
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| believing | (noun) the cognitive process that leads to convictions | - |
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| calving | (noun) giving birth to a calf | - |
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| carving | (noun) creating figures or designs in three dimensions | Synonyms: sculpture |
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| (noun) removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape | Synonyms: cutting |
| (noun) a sculpture created by removing material (as wood or ivory or stone) in order to create a desired shape | - |
| craving | (noun) an intense desire for some particular thing | - |
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| deriving | (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: derivation, etymologizing |
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| dissolving | (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| diving | (noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: dive |
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| (noun) an athletic competition that involves diving into water | Synonyms: diving event |
| driving | (noun) the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal | - |
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| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: drive |
| engraving | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: etching |
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| (noun) a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved | - |
| (noun) a print made from an engraving | - |
| giving | (noun) the act of giving | Synonyms: gift |
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| (noun) disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return | - |
| (noun) the imparting of news or promises etc. | - |
| grooving | (noun) the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm | Synonyms: rifling |
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| hairweaving | (noun) the act of interweaving a hairpiece with your own hair | - |
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| heaving | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heave |
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| (noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: panting |
| (noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heave |
| (noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heave |
| leaving | (noun) the act of departing | Synonyms: departure, going, going away |
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| lifesaving | (noun) saving the lives of drowning persons | - |
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| living | (noun) the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities | Synonyms: life |
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| (noun) people who are still living | - |
| (noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, support, sustenance |
| (noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive | Synonyms: aliveness, animation, life |
| misgiving | (noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust, suspicion |
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| (noun) painful expectation | Synonyms: apprehension |
| (noun) uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety) | Synonyms: qualm, scruple |
| paving | (noun) the act of applying paving materials to an area | Synonyms: pavage |
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| (noun) the paved surface of a thoroughfare | Synonyms: pavement |
| (noun) material used to pave an area | Synonyms: pavement, paving material |
| photoengraving | (noun) an engraving used to reproduce an illustration | Synonyms: halftone, halftone engraving |
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| raving | (noun) declaiming wildly | - |
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| reliving | (noun) a recurrence of a prior experience | Synonyms: re-experiencing |
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| resolving | (noun) analysis into clear-cut components | Synonyms: resolution |
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| roving | (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: vagabondage, wandering |
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| saving | (noun) an act of economizing; reduction in cost | Synonyms: economy |
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| (noun) the activity of protecting something from loss or danger | Synonyms: preservation |
| (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, delivery, rescue |
| serving | (noun) the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone | Synonyms: service, service of process |
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| (noun) an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | Synonyms: helping, portion |
| shaving | (noun) the act of removing hair with a razor | Synonyms: shave |
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| (noun) the act of brushing against while passing | Synonyms: grazing, skimming |
| (noun) a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something | Synonyms: paring, sliver |
| skydiving | (noun) performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute | - |
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| solving | (noun) finding a solution to a problem | Synonyms: resolution |
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| starving | (noun) the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine | Synonyms: starvation |
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| striving | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | Synonyms: nisus, pains, strain |
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| swerving | (noun) the act of turning aside suddenly | Synonyms: swerve, veering |
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| thanksgiving | (noun) a short prayer of thanks before a meal | Synonyms: blessing, grace |
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| thieving | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, stealing, theft, thievery |
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| waving | (noun) the act of signaling by a movement of the hand | Synonyms: wafture, wave |
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| weaving | (noun) creating fabric | - |
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| woodcarving | (noun) a carving created by carving wood | - |
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