cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
weltering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: welterings
Senses: examples: text: They may have extended, it is said, over only a few provinces of Central Asia, in which, when all was life and light in other parts of the globe, there reigned for a time only death and darkness amid the welterings of a chaotic sea […]
ref: 1854, Hugh Miller, The Two Records: The Mosaic and the Geological:
glosses: The motion of something that welters; a billowing.
lightening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ.tn̩.ɪŋ/
Etymology: Doublet of lightning.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lighten
lightening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ.tn̩.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: lightenings
Etymology: Doublet of lightning.
Senses: examples: text: Bradly did not think of Cora till he picked up her figure ahead of him on the downs, but with that he was aware of a sudden lightening of his spirits, and stepped out faster to overtake her.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 134:
glosses: The act or result of making something light or lighter.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The sensation caused by the descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity before the onset of labour
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The removal of cargo (especially crude oil) from a vessel in order to reduce its draft
lightening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ.tn̩.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lightning.
escorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of escort
escorting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escortings
Senses: examples: text: The first sentence means that all escortings by officers in Saint Petersburg were escortings of ballerinas. The second sentence means that all escortings of ballerinas in Saint Petersburg were escortings by officers.
ref: 2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, page 422:
glosses: The act by which someone is escorted; provision of an escort.
thronging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throng
thronging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throngings
Senses: examples: text: Tooth-drawers' bills, and tedious proclamations / In meal-markets, with throngings to see cutpurses […]
ref: c. 1614, John Fletcher, “Wit Without Money, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act IV, scene v:
glosses: The act of those who throng or form a crowd.
thronging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thronging
form: most thronging
Senses: examples: text: Look at the arduous exertion required of middle life; the thronging anxieties that spring up for others more than for ourselves;...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 312:
glosses: Of something that throngs.
misremembering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misremember
misremembering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misrememberings
Senses: glosses: An instance of remembering something incorrectly.
deforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deform
embowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embower
enthraling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enthral
coffering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coffer
homesteading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: head_nr: 1
qualifier: political philosophy; chiefly libertarianism; political philosophy; chiefly libertarianism
glosses: The act of appropriation of an unowned, scarce means, thereby gaining ownership of it; initial possession.
head_nr: 1
glosses: A lifestyle of self-sufficiency.
Derived terms: seasteading
homesteading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of homestead
Related terms: seasteading
steading
stinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stint
stinting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stintings
Senses: examples: text: […] as long as they can contrive to make a respectable appearance once a year, when they come to town, he gives himself little concern about their private stintings and struggles at home.
ref: 1848, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:
text: There is no such bad policy as stinting a boy—or putting him on a lower allowance than his fellows
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Act of one who stints.
pwning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pwn
guerdoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of guerdon
handcuffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of handcuff
handcuffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handcuffings
Senses: glosses: The act by which somebody is handcuffed.
trumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trump
trumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trumpings
Senses: examples: text: Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!
ref: 1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book, page 102:
text: To describe an oddball combination like 'Frolf' as a 'marriage of Frisbee and Golf' is to open yourself to trumpings of the form 'yeah, a shotgun marriage', 'a broken marriage', or depending on your politics, a 'gay marriage'.
ref: 2012, Tony Veale, Exploding The Creativity Myth:
glosses: The act by which something is trumped, topped or capped.
examples: 1861-1868, Frank Moore, The Rebellion Record
We list to the trumpings that herald the storm,
To the roll of the drum, and the order to form!
glosses: The sound of a trumpet.
parqueting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parquet
outranking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outrank
contemning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contemn
dinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ding
roistering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roister
roistering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roisterings
Senses: examples: text: [H]e could look on with an eye of kindness at the lookers-on too; at the roystering youth bent upon enjoyment, and here taking it […]
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 47, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Merry Mansions Sunday night, with loud parties in the distance. Matilda said she was going to have a good time at some heaven. And George Smith sat alone staring across the room. And out the window for a bit, at a roistering gathering of folk across the street. A city full of fathers with gathered arms of presents to give and get, this complicated time of year.
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 86:
glosses: Noisy, drunken, or riotous behavior.
goat boating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of goat boat
poniarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poniard
shuddering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]
ref: 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], “The Prologue”, in Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature A2, recto:
text: They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy.
ref: 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo:
glosses: present participle and gerund of shudder
shuddering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shudderings
Senses: glosses: An extended or continuous shudder.
coagulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coagulate
Derived terms: anticoagulating
noncoagulating
decommissioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decommission
decommissioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decommissionings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is decommissioned.
miswording
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misword
miswording
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miswordings
Senses: coordinate_terms: misphrasing
;
misspeaking
;
rewording
rephrasing
glosses: An instance of incorrect wording.
reenlisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reenlist
gleeking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡliːkɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gleek
deporting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deport
uncommenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncomment
conjoining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conjoin
conjoining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjoinings
Senses: examples: text: Then too, a language may choose more than one phonetic way of representing these conjoinings; some of these ways may sound the same as some other things that are not just plain conjoinings.
ref: 1981, Yoel L. Arbeitman, Allan R. Bomhard, Bono Homini Donum, page 127:
glosses: An act by which things are conjoined.
discomfiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkʌmfɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪsˈkʌmfətɪŋ/
ipa: [-ɾɪŋ]
Forms: form: discomfitting
Etymology: From discomfit + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discomfit
debauching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debauch
debauching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debauchings
Senses: examples: text: The parties stooped to vile and unbecoming meannesses; infinite briberies, forgeries, perjuries, and all manners of debauchings of the principles and manners of the electors were attempted.
ref: 1870, William Minto, “Daniel Defoe”, in Acme Library of Standard Biography:
glosses: Synonym of debauchery.
synonyms: word: debauchery
disinheriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disinherit
requisitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of requisition
assegaiing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assegai
clobbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clobber
clobbering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clobberings
Senses: glosses: A beating; a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
clobbering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It seems as if they traded in the complexity of a full range of troubling emotion for the clobbering pathos of the shouting match.
ref: 2012, Scott Hales, My Final Verdict on 'A Roof Overhead':
glosses: That clobbers.
beleaguering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beleaguer
microchunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of microchunk
rifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rift
romping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of romp
romping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rompings
Senses: examples: text: I said, I was glad no mortal eyes were upon us in our merry rompings.
ref: 1849, Henry Clarke Wright, Human Life, page 304:
glosses: The act of one who romps.
debiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debit
debiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debitings
Senses: glosses: The act of making a debit in accounting.
implanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of implant
smirking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smirk
smirking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smirkings
Senses: examples: text: […] I noticed a peculiar fluttering amongst the girls. On inquiring the reason of their mysterious gigglings and smirkings, I found that there was to be a wedding.
ref: 1853, John Ross Dix, Transatlantic Tracings:
glosses: The act of one who smirks.
swooning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swoon
Derived terms: swooningly
swooning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swoonings
Senses: examples: text: People of weak nerves or delicate constitutions are liable to swoonings or fainting fits.
ref: 2769, William Buchan, Domestic Medicine: or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines:
glosses: A swoon or faint.
supplanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of supplant
supplanting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supplantings
Senses: glosses: The process by which something is supplanted; a replacement.
disbanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disband
disbanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disbandings
Senses: examples: text: The re-coding of certain motive power depots referred to last month results from the disbanding of the Hull District; [...].
ref: 1960 April, “Motive Power Miscellany: North East Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 249:
glosses: A disbandment.
retracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retract
offloading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: A new site for a fully mechanised unloading terminal, to achieve quick offloading of the ore to special trains, was therefore selected at General Terminus Quay, on the south side of the Clyde [...].
ref: 1963 June, B. Perren, “Colvilles iron ore traffic in the Glasgow area”, in Modern Railways, page 409:
glosses: present participle and gerund of offload
offloading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offloadings
Senses: examples: text: However there is a significant number of offloadings in the regional tuna database which do not identify the port at which the offloading took place […]
ref: 1998, South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency, Development Opportunities in Selected Tuna Fisheries for Pacific Island Countries, page 123:
glosses: The act by which something is offloaded.
Related terms: Mobile data offloading
hallowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hallow
hallowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hallowings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is hallowed.
clattering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clatter
clattering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clattering
form: most clattering
Senses: examples: text: Do we really need another doe-eyed female singer-songwriter with a penchant for electro-pop? Twenty-two-year-old Louisa Rose Allen, aka Foxes, certainly thinks so. Available as a free download via Neon Gold, her debut single Youth is a monster mix of keening vocals, slow-burn electronics and, by the song's end, big clattering drums.
ref: 2011 November 21, Michael Cragg, “New music: Foxes - Home”, in the Guardian:
glosses: In a state or process of being clattered.
Derived terms: clatteringly
clattering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clatterings
Senses: examples: text: Miss Greta closed her eyes. Quickly, however, did she open them again; for a dull noise, with certain whiskings-about and flutterings, together with low clatterings, approached her ear.
ref: 1844, Fredrika Bremer, The Neighbours: A Story of Every-day Life, page 59:
text: The woodcock, the snipe, and other nocturnal birds were all gone to rest; but the merry songsters of the wood now filled the air with their jubilee; the nutcracker began his monotonous clattering, the chaffinches and the wrens sang high in the sky, the blackcock scolded and blustered loudly, the thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89:
glosses: A noise that clatters.
timestamping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timestampings
Senses: glosses: The action of marking something with a timestamp.
timestamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of timestamp
enamoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enamor
regrouping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regroupings
Senses: glosses: A new grouping; the act or result of grouping again.
regrouping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regroup
daisy chaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of daisy chain
boffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bauffing
Senses: glosses: A form of re-enacted fighting with foam weapons called boffers.
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
boffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bauffing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boff
clomping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clomp
clomping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That clomps.
Derived terms: clompingly
clomping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clompings
Senses: examples: text: There were whinnyings and clompings outside on the cobbles.
ref: 1974, Anthony Burgess, Napoleon Symphony:
glosses: The sound of walking with heavy footfalls.
concentering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of concenter
frowsting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frowst
plappering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plapper
risping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of risp
scrimshawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrimshaw
scrimshandering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrimshander
cashiering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cashier
cashiering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cashierings
Senses: glosses: A dismissal of a person from service, especially in the military.
endangering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of endanger
endangering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endangerings
Senses: examples: text: First, as felony prosecutor, I prosecute high-level felonies including homicides; sexual assaults; child endangerings; shootings and other felonious assaults; and media cases.
ref: 2015, Kenneth J. Peak, Pamela M. Everett, Introduction to Criminal Justice: Practice and Process:
glosses: The act of putting someone or something in danger.
scarpering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scarper
fallowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fallow
fallowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fallowings
Senses: examples: text: The rotation of nine years with two fallowings, which was formerly so much in vogue, is now seldom or never to be met with; it was, however, productive of very fine crops of corn on tenacious soils which require a great deal of tillage.
ref: 1860, Albrecht Daniel Thaer, The Principles of Practical Agriculture:
glosses: A period during which a field is left fallow.
broadening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɔː.də.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔːd.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔ.də.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔd.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑ.də.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑd.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɹoː.də.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɹoːd.nɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of broaden
broadening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɔː.də.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔːd.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔ.də.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔd.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑ.də.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑd.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɹoː.də.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɹoːd.nɪŋ/
Forms: form: broadenings
Senses: glosses: The act of becoming broader.
glosses: The act of making (something) broader.
Hyponyms: Doppler broadening
Derived terms: linebroadening
diffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diff
backlisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backlist
calendering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of calender
calendering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calenderings
Senses: glosses: The process of pressing paper, etc. in a calender.
disinteresting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disinterest
disinteresting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disinteresting
form: most disinteresting
Senses: examples: text: disinteresting passages
ref: 1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC:
glosses: uninteresting; dull
shipwrecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shipwreck
enlisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enlist
harkening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harken
harkening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harkenings
Senses: examples: text: The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me […]
ref: 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla:
glosses: The act of one who harkens or listens.
hearkening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hearken
hearkening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hearkenings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who hearkens or listens.
chastening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chasten
chastening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chastenings
Senses: examples: text: But these chastenings are for his sins, as appears by what follows[…]
ref: a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, On Original Sin:
glosses: The act by which somebody is chastened.
Derived terms: chasteningly
unchastening
spalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: * Cutting back of spalling masonry, reinforcement and repair using colour-matched stone repair mortar.
ref: 2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 27:
glosses: present participle and gerund of spall
spalling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spallings
Senses: examples: text: In the British-made Greek bricks the magma is not so evenly distributed, but after successive spallings the brick is converted bit by bit into the larger crystal formation […]
ref: 1919, The British Clay Worker, volume 27, page xxxi:
glosses: The process of reducing (stone blocks, etc.) to an approximately level surface by hammering.
examples: text: He says: "If we'd left any cracks exposed then it could have resulted in spalling.
ref: 2021 May 5, Paul Stephen, “Restoring the glory of Ribblehead”, in RAIL, number 930, page 39:
glosses: Any process that spalls a surface, or the damage that results from that process: spallation.
examples: text: A third process fluid, water, is employed to cool the burner and to aid in the removal of spallings.
ref: 1967, Mining Engineering, volume 19, page 136:
glosses: A fragment or chip of stone.
Related terms: spaller
bespoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bespoil
smothering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English smorþering.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smother
smothering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smotherings
Etymology: From Middle English smorþering.
Senses: examples: text: I do hope there will be no oniony and tobaccoey smotherings in the form of embracings all round, going on in the streets.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
text: When he came to, he begged me not to tell the hotel management, as his last two attempted smotherings had ended in failure and he was worried about losing his job.
ref: 2010, Harry Hill, Livin' the Dreem: A Year in My Life, page 397:
glosses: The act by which someone or something is smothered.
sulling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sull
suitoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suitor
bookmarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bookmark
decrescendoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decrescendo
bedewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedew
betokening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of betoken
melling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mell
distraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of distrain
distraining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distrainings
Senses: glosses: The act or process by which something is distrained.
bewraying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bewrayings
Etymology: From Middle English bewreying, biwreying, equivalent to bewray + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: As for the bewraying, or rather betraying, of my friends, since I dare swear for their fidelity to her majesty and crown, and am assured that such my bewraying could in no sort do my prince or country service, but give occasion and opportunity to their enemies, I hope in all humanity I may be pardoned, and wish not to live with such a spot of infamy, more intolerable far than death itself.
ref: 1858, The Rambler, page 403:
glosses: The act or process of divulging or revealing information
bewraying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From bewray + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bewray
Derived terms: bewrayingly
joisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of joist
joisting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joistings
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: An arrangement of joists; joistwork.
gallowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gallow
arointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aroint
jeoparding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jeopard
wauling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waul
wauling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waulings
Senses: examples: text: Their fights with other members of their own kind were always preceded by loud and fierce waulings or savage snarling and snapping of teeth […]
ref: 2006, Kenneth Conibear, Northland Footprints:
glosses: A plaintive cry or howl, as of a cat.
whickering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whicker
whickering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whickerings
Senses: examples: text: The mare and her foals, as though executing a spirited folk dance, pranced with loud whickerings among the guests.
ref: 1935, Mazo de la Roche, Young Renny:
glosses: The act of producing a whicker.
backfilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backfillings
Senses: examples: the backfilling of trenches
glosses: The process by which something is backfilled.
backfilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backfill
huckstering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of huckster
huckstering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hucksterings
Senses: examples: text: Hucksterings and barterings, and all the rest, they will cheerfully leave to the mountebanks and jugglers to whom they appropriately belong.
ref: 1858, Stephen Frank Miller, The bench and bar of Georgia:
glosses: The behavior of a huckster.
rationing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ration
rationing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rationings
Senses: glosses: A ration.
examples: text: The drastic rationing of paper enforced by the paper control, has made it necessary for us to adapt ourselves to the altered conditions.
ref: 1940 July, “Notes and News: Paper Control and the "Railway Magazine"”, in Railway Magazine, page 417:
text: After petrol rationing ended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
glosses: Controlled distribution of scarce resources such as food or fuel; used typically in wartime.
Related terms: ration stamp
clangouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clangour
clangoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clangor
redshirting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redshirt
countersigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of countersign
flumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flump
overworking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the problem was accentuated by the overworking of the assets of the railways in the second world war.
ref: 1955 March, “Modernisation and Re-Equipment of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 171:
glosses: present participle and gerund of overwork
ransacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ransack
ransacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ransackings
Senses: examples: text: Lefebvre never saw any of these battles and ransackings, but one wonders what he would have made of them.
ref: 2013, Andrew Merrifield, Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction, page 58:
glosses: The act by which something is ransacked.
barneying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barney
injecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inject
parboiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parboil
parboiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parboilings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is parboiled.
exulting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exult
exulting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exulting
form: most exulting
Senses: glosses: Showing exultation.
Derived terms: exultingly
exulting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exultings
Senses: examples: text: Disappointments and sorrows have taught me the vanity of human expectations, quieted the exultings of youthful hope, and cooled the ardour of anxious desire.
ref: 1825, The Baptist Missionary Magazine, volumes 5-6, page 132:
glosses: exultation
foisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɪstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪstɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foist
foisting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɪstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪstɪŋ
Forms: form: foistings
Senses: examples: text: […] those no less shameless foistings of useless and inferior goods upon the people […]
ref: 1903, James Stanley Little, Progress of the British Empire in the Century, page 229:
glosses: The act of something being foisted; imposition.
suctioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suction
waulking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waulk
waulking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waulkings
Senses: examples: text: But in the Outer Hebrides in particular, this form of work song still existed, attached to its original function, well into the 20th century, for waulkings continued to be practised as a communal task by women in their homes until the 1940s.
ref: 2012, Gary West, Voicing Scotland: Culture and Tradition in a Modern Nation, page 54:
glosses: The work by which cloth is waulked.
roqueting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roquet
swelting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swelt
despoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of despoil
despoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: despoilings
Senses: glosses: Synonym of despoliation.
synonyms: word: despoliation
Mirandaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Miranda
detouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detour
detouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detourings
Senses: glosses: The act of taking a detour.
dovetailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dovetail
dovetailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dovetailings
Senses: glosses: The situation in which things are dovetailed.
shimmering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shimmer
shimmering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shimmerings
Senses: glosses: A gleam or glimmer.
skulking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skulk
skulking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skulkings
Senses: examples: text: You will know them by their sly looks; their skulkings, peepings, watchings, and the snares they lay;—by the great papers, with great seals, that they carry; […]
ref: 1852, William Gilmore Simms, The Sword and the Distaff, page 205:
glosses: The action of one who skulks.
shortsheeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shortsheet
mitering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miter
afforesting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afforestings
Senses: examples: text: The Charter of the Forests had for its object the disafforesting several of those tracts; the prevention of future afforestings: the mitigation and ascertainment of the punishments for breaches of the Forest Law.
ref: 1760, Edmund Burke, “An Essay towards an Abridgment of the English History. […]”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume X, London: […] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], published 1826, →OCLC, book III, page 534:
glosses: Synonym of afforestation.
synonyms: word: afforestation
afforesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of afforest
reforesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reforest
deforesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deforest
attainting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of attaint
pincushioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pincushion
pincushioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pincushion distortion.
synonyms: word: pincushion distortion
blackballing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blackball
blackballing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackballings
Senses: glosses: An instance, or action, of a person being blackballed
buccaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buccan
poopooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poopoo
debeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debeak
oppugning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oppugn
instilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of instill
instilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: instillings
Senses: glosses: The process by which something is instilled.
chaulking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chaulk
pandaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pandar
combusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of combust
deconverting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deconvert
downselecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downselect
storyboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of storyboard
mimeographing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mimeograph
unpacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unpackings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is unpacked.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The separation of the features of a segment, such as a nasal vowel or palatal consonant, into distinct segments.
unpacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpack
downshifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downshift
downshifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A social trend towards living a simpler, less ambitious life with a better work-life balance.
protracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of protract
battening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of batten
battening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battenings
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Synonym of batten (“strip of wood used to hold things together or provide a fixing point”).
synonyms: word: batten
extra: strip of wood used to hold things together or provide a fixing point
puckering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puckerings
Senses: glosses: A fold or pinched bunch of fabric caused by the shrinkage of one layer among many.
puckering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pucker
splinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of splint
interjecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interject
caparisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of caparison
misrepresenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrepresent
misrepresenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misrepresentings
Senses: glosses: A misrepresentation.
contristing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contrist
egesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of egest
waggoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waggon
jinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jink
undercranking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undercrank
unlinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unlink
convalescing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of convalesce
fishtailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fishtail
espaliering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of espalier
fast tracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fast track
reaffirming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reaffirm
subcontracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subcontract
slithering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slither
slithering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slitherings
Senses: examples: text: Here, Valéry is of the devil's party, and boasts of it throughout a long catalogue of serpentine slitherings and insinuations. To be a snake, the protagonist announces, is to be a thinker, to live by one's wits[…]
ref: 2003, Sarah Kay, Terence Cave, Malcolm Bowie, A Short History of French Literature, page 263:
glosses: The act of one who slithers.
interconnecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: But the design of the '730s' wasn't just about the seating formation. The Metro-style walkthrough interior was chosen because it is much more spacious than the '323s', where the interconnecting doors between carriages, narrow central aisle, and cramped areas by the passenger doors had been deemed particularly constraining.
ref: 2025 April 16, Pip Dunn, “The future is orange....”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 53:
glosses: present participle and gerund of interconnect
realigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of realign
realigning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: realignings
Senses: glosses: A realignment.
realigning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That realigns.
reinstalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinstall
remodeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remodelling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remodel
remodeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remodelings
form: remodelling
Senses: glosses: The process or an instance of modeling again: applying another model.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: reno, renovation
text: For most Americans, big bonuses and corporate jets and office remodelings become a kind of stand-in for the real sins of the bankers.
ref: 2009 January 31, Joe Nocera, “It’s Not the Bonus Money. It’s the Principle.”, in New York Times:
text: They also demand that corporate boards establish explicit policies to guide expenditures on things such as entertainment and renovations — including corporate office remodelings — and make them public on their Web sites.
ref: 2009 February 5, “Still Nice Work if You Can Get It”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process or an instance of modeling again: applying another model.
Physical modification or redecorating.
unscrewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unscrew
unscrewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unscrewings
Senses: examples: text: But this was a sadly lingering process, since there must be as many screwings and unscrewings as there are copies to be printed.
ref: 1854, George Dodd, The Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences, page 35:
glosses: The act by which something is unscrewed.
declaiming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of declaim
declaiming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: declaimings
Senses: glosses: declamation
disorienting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disorienting
form: most disorienting
Senses: examples: text: But as you begin to take all the different perspectives into account, it gets very dizzifying, very aperspectival, very disorienting.
ref: 2007, Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything, page 289:
text: There are few experiences more disorienting than hearing the words, “You have cancer.”
ref: 2017, Vicki A. Jackson, David P. Ryan, Michelle D. Seaton, Living with Cancer, page vii:
text: Disorienting dilemmas can be small, like having to find your way around a strange city when your GPS isn't working, or they can be large, such as facing life-changing events like the loss of a job or a serious health or relationship problem.
ref: 2020, Jon F. Wergin, Deep Learning in a Disorienting World, page 29:
glosses: That causes disorientation; confusing.
Derived terms: disorientingly
disorienting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disorient
overfilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overfill
beseeming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beseeming
form: most beseeming
Etymology: From beseem + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Her Veſt, with Flow'rs of Gold embroider'd o'er, / With Grief diſtreſs'd, the mournful Matron tore, / And a beſeeming Suit of gloomy Sable wore.
ref: 1717, Samuel Croxall, “Book VI. [The Story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela.]”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 202:
glosses: Becoming, befitting, suitable.
Derived terms: beseemingly
beseemingness