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browsing
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n 1: reading superficially or at random [syn: browse,
browsing]
2: the act of feeding by continual nibbling [syn: browse,
browsing]
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carousing
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adj 1: used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of
bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken
soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: bacchanalian,
bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic]
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crowding
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n 1: a situation in which people or things are crowded together;
"he didn't like the crowding on the beach"
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doubting
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adj 1: marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a
skeptical listener" [syn: doubting, questioning,
skeptical, sceptical]
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dousing
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n 1: the act of wetting something by submerging it [syn:
submersion, immersion, ducking, dousing]
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dowsing
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n 1: searching for underground water or minerals by using a
dowsing rod [syn: dowse, dowsing, rhabdomancy]
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housing
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n 1: structures collectively in which people are housed [syn:
housing, lodging, living accommodations]
2: a protective cover designed to contain or support a
mechanical component
3: stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse,
especially (formerly) for a warhorse [syn: caparison,
trapping, housing]
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outing
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n 1: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to
the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after
cautious sashays into the field" [syn: excursion,
jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition,
sashay]
2: a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering [syn: field
day, outing, picnic]
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rousing
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adj 1: capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement; "a rousing
sermon"; "stirring events such as wars and rescues" [syn:
rousing, stirring]
2: rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or
goading; "tossed a rousing political comment into the
conversation"
n 1: the act of arousing; "the purpose of art is the arousal of
emotions" [syn: arousal, rousing]
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shouting
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n 1: encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators; "it's
all over but the shouting" [syn: cheering, shouting]
2: uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement
[syn: yelling, shouting]
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sounding
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adj 1: appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining
forms; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most
disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking";
"liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble
horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-
sounding talk" [syn: looking, sounding]
2: having volume or deepness; "sounding brass and a tinkling
cymbal"; "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"-
Wordsworth
3: making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining
form; "harsh-sounding"
n 1: a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
2: the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding
line)
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talking
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n 1: an exchange of ideas via conversation; "let's have more
work and less talk around here" [syn: talk, talking]
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bumping
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drowning
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