nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: encumbering Part of Speech: adj 1. Acting as an encumbrance; cumbersome; burdensome or serving to impede progress. Example: There is not a more encumbering impediment to success, than the affection of gratitude. Example: We are apt to think the close-fitted turban of the Asiatic a singular head-dress; and such as must be very encumbering in a hot climate; but this light yet bulky covering is, precisely, the defence which experience has taught the wearer to place upon his head, in situations in which the direct impulse of the rays might otherwise prove fatal.
Word: encumbering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of encumber Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: refracting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of refract Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: refracting Part of Speech: noun 1. An act of refraction. Example: Imaginal forms are virtual but fully individual refractings of light, or individual souls conceived as immaterial but distinct 'imaginings' of God.
Word: girding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of gird Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: girding Part of Speech: noun 1. A binding or encircling. Example: Bossuet thus beautifully addresses the Saviour of the world, when the girdings of his childhood were first untied […]
Word: caroming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of carom Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: entrusting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of entrust Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: chomping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of chomp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: chomping Part of Speech: noun 1. The sound or action of one who chomps. Example: E. E. Cummings They had quite a layout, a regular picnic-lunch elaborate enough for kings or even presidents. The v-f-g in particular annoyed me by uttering alternate chompings and belchings.
Word: grandstanding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grandstand + -ing. 1. Dramatic or showy behavior intended to impress an audience or observers. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer. Example: "We are tired of the shutdowns and the showdowns, the gridlock and the grandstanding," Klobuchar said in a speech to supporters. "Our nation must be governed not from chaos but from opportunity. Not by wallowing over what’s wrong, but by marching inexorably toward what’s right."
Word: grandstanding Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From grandstand + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of grandstand Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: recollecting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of recollect Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: coifing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of coif Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: skewering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of skewer Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: skewering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is skewered.
Word: likening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of liken Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: likening Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which things are likened; a comparison. Example: I sometimes, in musing mood, find myself making spontaneous likenings of inanimate to animate nature, comparing the qualities of things to the qualities of men[…]
Word: lowballing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of lowball Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lengthening Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English lengthen Middle English -ynge English -ing English lengthening From lengthen + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛŋ(k)θənɪŋ/, /ˈlɛŋ(k)θnɪŋ/ 1. The process of making or growing longer. Example: This enabled an additional 15-20 containers to be carried per train, giving a 20% productivity gain, and was partly enabled by Network Rail completing the lengthening of loops on the route northwards from Southampton via Banbury. 2. a type of sound change when a sound (especially a vowel) lengthens
Word: lengthening Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English lengthen Middle English -ynge English -ing English lengthening From lengthen + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛŋ(k)θənɪŋ/, /ˈlɛŋ(k)θnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of lengthen Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cooning Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkuːnɪŋ/ 1. Racoon hunting. Labels: uncountable Example: At this time, cooning in the remote interior is a famous pastime. As this animal is entirely nocturnal in its habits it is hunted only at night. Example: But if he [the dog] strikes a trail, you presently hear...loud and repeated barking as he reaches the foot of the tree in which the coon has taken refuge. Then follows a pellmell rush of the cooning party up the hill, into the woods, through the brush and the darkness
Word: cooning Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkuːnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of coon Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bedeviling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bedevil Labels: US, form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bedeviling Part of Speech: noun 1. An act by which somebody is bedevilled; causing of trouble; harassment.
Word: weltering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of welter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: While weltering in the purple stream That dyed their garments' fold, Their flowing curls profusely lay, Bright chesnut blent with gold.
Word: weltering Part of Speech: noun 1. The motion of something that welters; a billowing. Example: 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 […]
Word: lightening Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ.tn̩.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of lighten Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lightening Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ.tn̩.ɪŋ/ 1. The act or result of making something light or lighter. Example: 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. 2. The sensation caused by the descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity before the onset of labour 3. The removal of cargo (especially crude oil) from a vessel in order to reduce its draft
Word: lightening Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Doublet of lightning. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ.tn̩.ɪŋ/ 1. Alternative form of lightning. Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete, proscribed
Word: escorting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of escort Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: escorting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which someone is escorted; provision of an escort. Example: 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.
Word: thronging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of throng Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: thronging Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of those who throng or form a crowd. Example: Tooth-drawers' bills, and tedious proclamations / In meal-markets, with throngings to see cutpurses […]
Word: thronging Part of Speech: adj 1. Of something that throngs. Example: Look at the arduous exertion required of middle life; the thronging anxieties that spring up for others more than for ourselves;...
Word: misremembering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of misremember Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: misremembering Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of remembering something incorrectly.
Word: deforming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deform Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: embowering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of embower Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: enthraling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of enthral Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present, rare
Word: coffering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of coffer Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: homesteading Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of appropriation of an unowned, scarce means, thereby gaining ownership of it; initial possession. Labels: uncountable 2. A lifestyle of self-sufficiency. Labels: uncountable
Word: homesteading Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of homestead. Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stinting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of stint Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stinting Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: stinting Part of Speech: noun 1. Act of one who stints. Example: […] 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. Example: There is no such bad policy as stinting a boy—or putting him on a lower allowance than his fellows
Word: pwning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pwn Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: guerdoning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of guerdon Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: handcuffing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of handcuff Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: handcuffing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which somebody is handcuffed.
Word: trumping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of trump Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: trumping Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is trumped, topped or capped. Example: Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand! Example: 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'. 2. The sound of a trumpet. Labels: archaic, poetic Example: 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!
Word: parqueting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of parquet Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: outranking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outrank Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: contemning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of contemn Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dinging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ding Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: roistering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of roister Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: roistering Part of Speech: noun 1. Noisy, drunken, or riotous behavior. Example: [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 […] Example: 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.
Word: goat boating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of goat boat Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: poniarding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of poniard Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: shuddering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of shudder Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: 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; […] Example: They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy.
Word: shuddering Part of Speech: noun 1. An extended or continuous shudder.
Word: coagulating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of coagulate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: decommissioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of decommission Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: decommissioning Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is decommissioned.
Word: miswording Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of misword Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: miswording Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of incorrect wording.
Word: reenlisting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reenlist Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: gleeking Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɡliːkɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of gleek Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deporting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deport Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: uncommenting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of uncomment Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: conjoining Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of conjoin Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: conjoining Part of Speech: noun 1. An act by which things are conjoined. Example: 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.
Word: discomfiting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From discomfit + -ing. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkʌmfɪtɪŋ/, /dɪsˈkʌmfətɪŋ/, [-ɾɪŋ] 1. Tending to discomfit (“embarrass greatly; upset the composure of, disconcert”). Example: O I am deadly ſick!—reach me that thing, boy—'tis the moſt diſcomfiting ſickness— [...] Example: Under ſuch diſcomfiting circumſtance as general neglect, and that too palpable to be miſunderſtood, the whole of this picture was buried in oblivion; [...]
Word: discomfiting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From discomfit + -ing. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkʌmfɪtɪŋ/, /dɪsˈkʌmfətɪŋ/, [-ɾɪŋ] 1. present participle and gerund of discomfit Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: debauching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of debauch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: debauching Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of debauchery. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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.
Word: disinheriting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disinherit Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: requisitioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of requisition Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: assegaiing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of assegai Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clobbering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of clobber Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clobbering Part of Speech: noun 1. A beating; a thrashing; a thorough defeat. Labels: informal
Word: clobbering Part of Speech: adj 1. That clobbers. Labels: not-comparable Example: It seems as if they traded in the complexity of a full range of troubling emotion for the clobbering pathos of the shouting match.
Word: beleaguering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of beleaguer Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: microchunking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of microchunk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rifting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of rift Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: romping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of romp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: romping Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who romps. Example: I said, I was glad no mortal eyes were upon us in our merry rompings.
Word: debiting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of debit Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: debiting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of making a debit in accounting.
Word: implanting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of implant Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: smirking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of smirk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: smirking Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who smirks. Example: […] 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.
Word: swooning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of swoon Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: swooning Part of Speech: noun 1. A swoon or faint. Example: People of weak nerves or delicate constitutions are liable to swoonings or fainting fits.
Word: supplanting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of supplant Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: supplanting Part of Speech: noun 1. The process by which something is supplanted; a replacement. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: disbanding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disband Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: disbanding Part of Speech: noun 1. A disbandment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The re-coding of certain motive power depots referred to last month results from the disbanding of the Hull District; [...].
Word: retracting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of retract Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: offloading Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is offloaded. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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 […]
Word: offloading Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of offload Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: 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 [...].
Word: hallowing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of hallow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hallowing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is hallowed.
Word: clattering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of clatter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clattering Part of Speech: adj 1. In a state or process of being clattered. Example: 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.
Word: clattering Part of Speech: noun 1. A noise that clatters. Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: timestamping Part of Speech: noun 1. The action of marking something with a timestamp.
Word: timestamping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of timestamp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: enamoring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of enamor Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: regrouping Part of Speech: noun 1. A new grouping; the act or result of grouping again.
Word: regrouping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of regroup Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: daisy chaining Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of daisy chain Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: boffing Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of re-enacted fighting with foam weapons called boffers. Labels: uncountable 2. Sexual intercourse. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: boffing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of boff Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clomping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of clomp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clomping Part of Speech: adj 1. That clomps. Labels: not-comparable
Word: clomping Part of Speech: noun 1. The sound of walking with heavy footfalls. Example: There were whinnyings and clompings outside on the cobbles.
Word: concentering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of concenter Labels: US, form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: frowsting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of frowst Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: plappering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plapper Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: risping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of risp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: scrimshawing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of scrimshaw Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: scrimshandering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of scrimshander Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cashiering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of cashier Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cashiering Part of Speech: noun 1. A dismissal of a person from service, especially in the military.
Word: endangering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of endanger Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: endangering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of putting someone or something in danger. Example: First, as felony prosecutor, I prosecute high-level felonies including homicides; sexual assaults; child endangerings; shootings and other felonious assaults; and media cases.
Word: scarpering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of scarper Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fallowing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fallow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fallowing Part of Speech: noun 1. A period during which a field is left fallow. Example: 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.
Word: broadening Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɔː.də.nɪŋ/, /ˈbɹɔːd.nɪŋ/, /ˈbɹɔ.də.nɪŋ/, /ˈbɹɔd.nɪŋ/, /ˈbɹɑ.də.nɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of broaden Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: broadening Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɔː.də.nɪŋ/, /ˈbɹɔːd.nɪŋ/, /ˈbɹɔ.də.nɪŋ/, /ˈbɹɔd.nɪŋ/, /ˈbɹɑ.də.nɪŋ/ 1. The act of becoming broader. 2. The act of making (something) broader. Example: The broadening of the main street in this sleepy town is expected to cost a lot of money; it is said that the project will be financed with municipal bonds, but many citizens are skeptical of such debt. Example: The broadening of one's horizons is good for the soul.
Word: broadening Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɔː.də.nɪŋ/, /ˈbɹɔːd.nɪŋ/, /ˈbɹɔ.də.nɪŋ/, /ˈbɹɔd.nɪŋ/, /ˈbɹɑ.də.nɪŋ/ 1. That gives someone broader education and experience; that broadens someone's horizons. Example: Travel is broadening. And exciting too, sometimes. In eleven European trips and two circumaviations during the past eleven years in quest of rare books, I have been lucky on two or three occasions. In Edinburgh in 1959 I came across a set of Blaeu's Atlas in eleven large volumes, printed in Amsterdam in 1662.
Word: diffing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of diff Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: backlisting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of backlist Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: calendering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of calender Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: calendering Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of pressing paper, etc. in a calender.
Word: disinteresting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disinterest Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: disinteresting Part of Speech: adj 1. uninteresting; dull Labels: obsolete Example: disinteresting passages
Word: shipwrecking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of shipwreck Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: enlisting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of enlist Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: harkening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of harken Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: harkening Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who harkens or listens. Example: The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me […]
Word: hearkening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of hearken Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hearkening Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who hearkens or listens.
Word: chastening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of chasten Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: chastening Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which somebody is chastened. Example: But these chastenings are for his sins, as appears by what follows[…]
Word: spalling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of spall Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: * Cutting back of spalling masonry, reinforcement and repair using colour-matched stone repair mortar.
Word: spalling Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of reducing (stone blocks, etc.) to an approximately level surface by hammering. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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 […] 2. Any process that spalls a surface, or the damage that results from that process: spallation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He says: "If we'd left any cracks exposed then it could have resulted in spalling. 3. A fragment or chip of stone. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A third process fluid, water, is employed to cool the burner and to aid in the removal of spallings.
Word: bespoiling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bespoil Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: smothering Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English smorþering. 1. present participle and gerund of smother Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: smothering Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English smorþering. 1. The act by which someone or something is smothered. Example: I do hope there will be no oniony and tobaccoey smotherings in the form of embracings all round, going on in the streets. Example: 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.
Word: sulling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of sull Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: suitoring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of suitor Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bookmarking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bookmark Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: decrescendoing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of decrescendo Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bedewing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bedew Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: betokening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of betoken Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: melling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mell Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: distraining Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of distrain Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: distraining Part of Speech: noun 1. The act or process by which something is distrained.
Word: bewraying Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bewreying, biwreying, equivalent to bewray + -ing. 1. The act or process of divulging or revealing information Example: 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.
Word: bewraying Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. present participle and gerund of bewray Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: joisting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of joist Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: joisting Part of Speech: noun 1. An arrangement of joists; joistwork. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: gallowing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of gallow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: arointing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of aroint Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: jeoparding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of jeopard Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wauling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of waul Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wauling Part of Speech: noun 1. A plaintive cry or howl, as of a cat. Example: Their fights with other members of their own kind were always preceded by loud and fierce waulings or savage snarling and snapping of teeth […]
Word: whickering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of whicker Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: whickering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of producing a whicker. Example: The mare and her foals, as though executing a spirited folk dance, pranced with loud whickerings among the guests.
Word: backfilling Part of Speech: noun 1. The process by which something is backfilled. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the backfilling of trenches
Word: backfilling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of backfill Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: huckstering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of huckster Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: huckstering Part of Speech: noun 1. The behavior of a huckster. Example: Hucksterings and barterings, and all the rest, they will cheerfully leave to the mountebanks and jugglers to whom they appropriately belong.
Word: rationing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ration Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rationing Part of Speech: noun 1. A ration. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Controlled distribution of scarce resources such as food or fuel; used typically in wartime. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The drastic rationing of paper enforced by the paper control, has made it necessary for us to adapt ourselves to the altered conditions. Example: 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.
Word: clangouring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of clangour Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clangoring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of clangor Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: redshirting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of redshirt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: countersigning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of countersign Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: flumping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of flump Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overworking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overwork Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: Moreover, the problem was accentuated by the overworking of the assets of the railways in the second world war.
Word: ransacking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ransack Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ransacking Part of Speech: noun 1. An act of ransacking (“searching thoroughly (in order to steal); etc.”) someone or something; an eager search. Example: Lefebvre never saw any of these battles and ransackings, but one wonders what he would have made of them.
Word: barneying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of barney Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: injecting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of inject Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: parboiling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of parboil Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: parboiling Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is parboiled.
Word: exulting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of exult Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: exulting Part of Speech: adj 1. Showing exultation.
Word: exulting Part of Speech: noun 1. exultation Example: Disappointments and sorrows have taught me the vanity of human expectations, quieted the exultings of youthful hope, and cooled the ardour of anxious desire.
Word: foisting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɪstɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of foist Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: foisting Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɪstɪŋ/ 1. The act of something being foisted; imposition. Example: […] those no less shameless foistings of useless and inferior goods upon the people […]
Word: suctioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of suction Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: waulking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of waulk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: waulking Part of Speech: noun 1. The work by which cloth is waulked. Example: 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.
Word: roqueting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of roquet Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: swelting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of swelt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: despoiling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of despoil Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: despoiling Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of despoliation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Mirandaing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of Miranda Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: detouring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of detour Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: detouring Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of taking a detour.
Word: dovetailing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of dovetail Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dovetailing Part of Speech: noun 1. The situation in which things are dovetailed.
Word: shimmering Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: shimmering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of shimmer Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: shimmering Part of Speech: noun 1. A gleam or glimmer.
Word: skulking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of skulk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: skulking Part of Speech: noun 1. The action of one who skulks. Example: 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; […]
Word: shortsheeting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of shortsheet Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mitering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of miter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: afforesting Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of afforestation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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.
Word: afforesting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of afforest Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reforesting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reforest Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deforesting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deforest Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: attainting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of attaint Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pincushioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pincushion Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pincushioning Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of pincushion distortion. Labels: uncountable
Word: blackballing Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance, or action, of a person being blackballed.
Word: blackballing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of blackball Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: buccaning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of buccan Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: poopooing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of poopoo Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: debeaking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of debeak Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: oppugning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of oppugn Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: instilling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of instill Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: instilling Part of Speech: noun 1. The process by which something is instilled.
Word: chaulking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of chaulk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pandaring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pandar Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: combusting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of combust Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deconverting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deconvert Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: downselecting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of downselect Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: storyboarding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of storyboard Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mimeographing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mimeograph Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unpacking Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is unpacked. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The separation of the features of a segment, such as a nasal vowel or palatal consonant, into distinct segments. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: unpacking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unpack Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: downshifting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of downshift Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: downshifting Part of Speech: noun 1. A social trend towards living a simpler, less ambitious life with a better work-life balance. Labels: uncountable
Word: protracting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of protract Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: battening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of batten Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: battening Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of batten (“strip of wood used to hold things together or provide a fixing point”).
Word: puckering Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: puckering Part of Speech: noun 1. A fold or pinched bunch of fabric caused by the shrinkage of one layer among many.
Word: puckering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pucker Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: splinting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of splint Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: interjecting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of interject Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: caparisoning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of caparison Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: misrepresenting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of misrepresent Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: misrepresenting Part of Speech: noun 1. A misrepresentation.
Word: contristing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of contrist Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: egesting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of egest Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: waggoning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of waggon Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: jinking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of jink Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: undercranking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of undercrank Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unlinking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unlink Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: convalescing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of convalesce Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fishtailing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fishtail Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: espaliering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of espalier Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fast tracking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fast track Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reaffirming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reaffirm Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: subcontracting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of subcontract Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: slithering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of slither Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: slithering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act or action of one who slithers. Example: As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance. Example: 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[…]
Word: interconnecting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of interconnect Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: 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.
Word: realigning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of realign Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: realigning Part of Speech: noun 1. A realignment.
Word: realigning Part of Speech: adj 1. That realigns. Labels: not-comparable
Word: reinstalling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reinstall Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: remodeling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of remodel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: remodeling Part of Speech: noun 1. The process or an instance of modeling again: applying another model. Labels: US, countable, uncountable 2. The process or an instance of modeling again: applying another model. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: reno, renovation Example: For most Americans, big bonuses and corporate jets and office remodelings become a kind of stand-in for the real sins of the bankers.
Word: unscrewing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unscrew Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unscrewing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is unscrewed. Example: But this was a sadly lingering process, since there must be as many screwings and unscrewings as there are copies to be printed.
Word: declaiming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of declaim Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: declaiming Part of Speech: noun 1. declamation
Word: disorienting Part of Speech: adj 1. That causes disorientation; confusing. Example: But as you begin to take all the different perspectives into account, it gets very dizzifying, very aperspectival, very disorienting. Example: There are few experiences more disorienting than hearing the words, “You have cancer.”
Word: disorienting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disorient Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overfilling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overfill Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: beseeming Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English beseem Middle English -ynge English -ing English beseeming From beseem + -ing. 1. Becoming, befitting, suitable. Example: 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.