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buying
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n 1: the act of buying; "buying and selling fill their days";
"shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge" [syn:
buying, purchasing]
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crying
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adj 1: demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need";
"regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"-
H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" [syn:
clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant]
2: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a
crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of
human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross
injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a), egregious,
flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]
n 1: the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs
or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying
of a child"; "she was in tears" [syn: crying, weeping,
tears]
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dyeing
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n 1: the use of dye to change the color of something permanently
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dying
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adj 1: in or associated with the process of passing from life or
ceasing to be; "a dying man"; "his dying wish"; "a dying
fire"; "a dying civilization" [ant: nascent]
2: eagerly desirous; "anxious to see the new show at the
museum"; "dying to hear who won" [syn: anxious(p),
dying(p)]
n 1: the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his
plans"; "a dying of old hopes" [syn: death, dying,
demise] [ant: birth]
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flying
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adj 1: moving swiftly; "fast-flying planes"; "played the
difficult passage with flying fingers" [syn: fast-
flying, flying]
2: hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying
glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"
[syn: flying, quick, fast]
n 1: an instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an
exciting adventure for him" [syn: flight, flying]
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frying
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n 1: cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle [syn: frying,
sauteing]
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gratifying
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adj 1: pleasing to the mind or feeling; "sweet revenge" [syn:
gratifying, sweet]
2: affording satisfaction or pleasure; "the company was
enjoyable"; "found her praise gratifying"; "full of happiness
and pleasurable excitement"; "good printing makes a book more
pleasurable to read" [syn: enjoyable, gratifying,
pleasurable]
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lying
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n 1: the deliberate act of deviating from the truth [syn:
lying, prevarication, fabrication]
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overlying
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adj 1: placed on or over something else; "an overlying image"
[syn: overlying, superimposed]
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prying
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adj 1: offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the
neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his
nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us
all day" [syn: nosy, nosey, prying, snoopy]
n 1: offensive inquisitiveness [syn: nosiness, prying,
snoopiness]
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spying
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n 1: keeping a secret or furtive watch
2: the act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes
[syn: spying, undercover work]
3: the act of detecting something; catching sight of something
[syn: detection, catching, espial, spying,
spotting]
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supplying
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n 1: the activity of supplying or providing something [syn:
provision, supply, supplying]
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trying
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adj 1: hard to endure; "fell upon trying times"
2: extremely irritating to the nerves; "nerve-racking noise";
"the stressful days before a war"; "a trying day at the
office" [syn: nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, stressful,
trying]
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tying
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n 1: the act of tying or binding things together [syn: tying,
ligature]
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underlying
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adj 1: in the nature of something though not readily apparent;
"shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying
meaning" [syn: implicit in(p), inherent,
underlying]
2: located beneath or below
3: being or involving basic facts or principles; "the
fundamental laws of the universe"; "a fundamental
incomatibility between them"; "these rudimentary truths";
"underlying principles" [syn: fundamental, rudimentary,
underlying]
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undying
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adj 1: never dying; "his undying fame" [syn: deathless,
undying]
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unifying
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adj 1: combining into a single unit [syn: consolidative,
unifying]
2: tending to unify [syn: centripetal, unifying(a)]
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allying
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applying
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belying
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complying
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decrying
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defying
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denying
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drying
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eyeing
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eying
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guying
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plying
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relying
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shying
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sighing
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vying
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skying
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tieing
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