Words that rhyme with depleting

  • beating
    n 1: the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: beating, whipping] 2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking]
  • bleeding
    n 1: the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel [syn: bleeding, hemorrhage, haemorrhage]
  • breathing
    adj 1: passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination; "the boy was disappointed to find only skeletons instead of living breathing dinosaurs"; "the heavy-breathing person on the telephone" [syn: breathing, eupneic, eupnoeic] [ant: breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic] n 1: the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation [syn: breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation]
  • cheating
    adj 1: not faithful to a spouse or lover; "adulterous husbands and wives"; "a two-timing boyfriend" [syn: adulterous, cheating(a), two-timing(a)] 2: violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" [syn: cheating(a), dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike] n 1: a deception for profit to yourself [syn: cheat, cheating]
  • completing
    adj 1: acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) [syn: complemental, complementary, completing]
  • creeping
    n 1: a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" [syn: crawl, crawling, creep, creeping]
  • eating
    n 1: the act of consuming food [syn: eating, feeding]
  • fleeting
    adj 1: lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse" [syn: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary]
  • greeting
    n 1: (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting) [syn: greeting, salutation]
  • heating
    n 1: the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature [syn: heating, warming] 2: utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn't working"; "they have radiant heating" [syn: heating system, heating plant, heating, heat]
  • meeting
    n 1: a formally arranged gathering; "next year the meeting will be in Chicago"; "the meeting elected a chairperson" [syn: meeting, group meeting] 2: a small informal social gathering; "there was an informal meeting in my living room" [syn: meeting, get together] 3: a casual or unexpected convergence; "he still remembers their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the hallway" [syn: meeting, encounter] 4: the social act of assembling for some common purpose; "his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day" [syn: meeting, coming together] 5: the act of joining together as one; "the merging of the two groups occurred quickly"; "there was no meeting of minds" [syn: merging, meeting, coming together] 6: a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers); "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers" [syn: confluence, meeting]
  • overeating
    n 1: eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: gluttony, overeating, gula]
  • repeating
    n 1: the act of doing or performing again [syn: repetition, repeating]
  • seating
    n 1: an area that includes places where several people can sit; "there is seating for 40 students in this classroom" [syn: seating, seats, seating room, seating area] 2: the service of ushering people to their seats
  • sheeting
    n 1: fabric from which bed sheets are made
  • pleating
    n 1: the act of folding in parallel folds [syn: plication, pleating]
  • bleating
  • browbeating
  • competing
  • defeating
  • deleting
  • retreating
  • treating
  • sleeting
  • tweeting
  • sweeting
  • keating