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chilling
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adj 1: provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most
terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"
[syn: chilling, scarey, scary, shivery,
shuddery]
n 1: the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature [syn:
cooling, chilling, temperature reduction]
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chipping
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n 1: the act of chipping something [syn: chip, chipping,
splintering]
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clipping
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n 1: an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; "he searched
through piles of letters and clippings" [syn: clipping,
newspaper clipping, press clipping, cutting, press
cutting]
2: cutting down to the desired size or shape [syn: trim,
trimming, clipping]
3: the act of clipping or snipping [syn: clip, clipping,
snip]
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dripping
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adv 1: extremely wet; "dripping wet"; "soaking wet" [syn:
soaking, sopping, dripping]
n 1: a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves
of house) [syn: dripping, drippage]
2: the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop; "the constant
sound of dripping irritated him" [syn: drip, dripping]
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equipping
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n 1: the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war
[syn: arming, armament, equipping] [ant:
disarmament, disarming]
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gripping
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adj 1: capable of arousing and holding the attention; "a
fascinating story" [syn: absorbing, engrossing,
fascinating, gripping, riveting]
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itching
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n 1: an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to
scratch [syn: itch, itchiness, itching]
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listening
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n 1: the act of hearing attentively; "you can learn a lot by
just listening"; "they make good music--you should give
them a hearing" [syn: listening, hearing]
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living
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adj 1: pertaining to living persons; "within living memory"
2: true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother"
3: (informal) absolute; "she is a living doll"; "scared the
living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of
him"
4: still in existence; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a
surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long
extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only
surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania" [syn:
surviving, living]
5: still in active use; "a living language"
6: (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place;
not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone";
n 1: the experience of being alive; the course of human events
and activities; "he could no longer cope with the
complexities of life" [syn: life, living]
2: people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"
[ant: dead]
3: the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while
there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical
and physical processes" [syn: animation, life, living,
aliveness]
4: the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was
expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for
support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood" [syn:
support, keep, livelihood, living, bread and
butter, sustenance]
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missing
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adj 1: not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing
person"
2: nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was
lacking" [syn: lacking, absent, missing, wanting]
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nipping
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adj 1: capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting
aphorism"; "pungent satire" [syn: barbed, biting,
nipping, pungent, mordacious]
2: pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and
frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day";
"snappy weather" [syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy,
snappy]
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ripping
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adj 1: resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something
ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree; "the tree
split with a great ripping sound"; "heard a rending roar
as the crowd surged forward" [syn: rending, ripping,
splitting]
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shipping
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n 1: the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
[syn: transportation, shipping, transport]
2: conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or
industry [syn: shipping, cargo ships, merchant marine,
merchant vessels]
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slipping
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adj 1: moving as on a slippery surface; "his slipping and
slithering progress over the ice" [syn: slipping,
slithering]
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snipping
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n 1: a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been
snipped off) [syn: snip, snippet, snipping]
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stripping
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n 1: the removal of covering [syn: denudation, stripping,
uncovering, baring, husking]
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tripping
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adj 1: characterized by a buoyant rhythm; "an easy lilting
stride"; "the flute broke into a light lilting air"; "a
swinging pace"; "a graceful swingy walk"; "a tripping
singing measure" [syn: lilting, swinging, swingy,
tripping]
2: moving easily and quickly; nimble; "the dancer was light and
graceful"; "a lightsome buoyant step"; "walked with a light
tripping step" [syn: light, lightsome, tripping]
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whipping
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adj 1: smart and fashionable; "snappy conversation"; "some sharp
and whipping lines" [syn: snappy, whipping]
n 1: beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of
punishment [syn: whipping, tanning, flogging,
lashing, flagellation]
2: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle,
drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping]
3: a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally [syn:
whipstitch, whipping, whipstitching]
4: the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: beating,
whipping]
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blipping
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bopping
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capping
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dipping
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flipping
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outstripping
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pimping
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sipping
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skipping
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tipping
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zipping
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