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assembling
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n 1: the act of gathering something together [syn: collection,
collecting, assembling, aggregation]
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deadening
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adj 1: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a
boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening
effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his
competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who
couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task
the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious
days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"-
Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully
wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum,
irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome]
n 1: the act of making something futile and useless (as by
routine) [syn: stultification, constipation,
impairment, deadening]
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deafening
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adj 1: loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss [syn:
deafening, earsplitting, thunderous, thundery]
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developing
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adj 1: relating to societies in which capital needed to
industrialize is in short supply [syn: developing,
underdeveloped]
n 1: processing a photosensitive material in order to make an
image visible; "the development and printing of his
pictures took only two hours" [syn: development,
developing]
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editing
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n 1: putting something (as a literary work or a legislative
bill) into acceptable form [syn: editing, redaction]
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enveloping
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adj 1: surrounding and closing in on or hemming in; "the army's
enveloping maneuver"
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fencing
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n 1: a barrier that serves to enclose an area [syn: fence,
fencing]
2: material for building fences [syn: fencing material,
fencing]
3: the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use
of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of
rules)
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leavening
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n 1: an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify
something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of
humor" [syn: leaven, leavening]
2: a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
[syn: leaven, leavening]
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lengthening
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n 1: the act of prolonging something; "there was an indefinite
prolongation of the peace talks" [syn: prolongation,
protraction, perpetuation, lengthening]
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lessening
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n 1: a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature
as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in
sales" [syn: decrease, lessening, drop-off] [ant:
increase]
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meddling
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adj 1: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an
interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly
making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about
other people's business" [syn: interfering,
meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy,
busybodied]
n 1: the act of altering something secretly or improperly [syn:
meddling, tampering]
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menacing
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adj 1: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;
"a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone
became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent";
"sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his
threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the
situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding,
menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous,
sinister, threatening]
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peddling
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n 1: the act of selling goods for a living [syn: vending,
peddling, hawking, vendition]
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questioning
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adj 1: perplexed (as if being expected to know something that
you do not know); "he had a quizzical expression" [syn:
questioning, quizzical]
2: marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a
skeptical listener" [syn: doubting, questioning,
skeptical, sceptical]
3: showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light
post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative
eyebrow" [syn: inquisitive, speculative, questioning,
wondering(a)]
n 1: a request for information [syn: questioning, inquiring]
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reckoning
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n 1: problem solving that involves numbers or quantities [syn:
calculation, computation, figuring, reckoning]
2: a bill for an amount due [syn: reckoning, tally]
3: the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order;
"the counting continued for several hours" [syn: count,
counting, numeration, enumeration, reckoning,
tally]
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reference
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n 1: a remark that calls attention to something or someone; "she
made frequent mention of her promotion"; "there was no
mention of it"; "the speaker made several references to his
wife" [syn: mention, reference]
2: a short note recognizing a source of information or of a
quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several
important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually
printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes
mention of similar clinical cases" [syn: citation, cite,
acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention,
quotation]
3: an indicator that orients you generally; "it is used as a
reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy
involved" [syn: reference point, point of reference,
reference]
4: a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he
contributed articles to the basic reference work on that
topic" [syn: reference book, reference, reference work,
book of facts]
5: a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential
future employer describing the person's qualifications and
dependability; "requests for character references are all too
often answered evasively" [syn: character, reference,
character reference]
6: the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression;
the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the
extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only
Demos and Phobos" [syn: reference, denotation,
extension]
7: the act of referring or consulting; "reference to an
encyclopedia produced the answer" [syn: reference,
consultation]
8: a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is
referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his
desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that
quotation" [syn: reference, source]
9: (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of
information is stored [syn: address, computer address,
reference]
10: the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea
it refers to; "he argued that reference is a consequence of
conditioned reflexes"
v 1: refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work" [syn:
reference, cite]
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settling
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n 1: a gradual sinking to a lower level [syn: settling,
subsiding, subsidence]
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threatening
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adj 1: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;
"a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone
became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent";
"sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his
threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the
situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding,
menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous,
sinister, threatening]
2: darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" [syn: heavy, lowering,
sullen, threatening]
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trembling
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adj 1: vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or
cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a
quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more";
"quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking
knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from
the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling
hands" [syn: shaky, shivering, trembling]
n 1: a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his
pipe" [syn: shaking, shakiness, trembling, quiver,
quivering, vibration, palpitation]
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welcoming
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adj 1: very cordial; "a welcoming smile"
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wrestling
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n 1: the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat; "they had
a fierce wrestle"; "we watched his grappling and wrestling
with the bully" [syn: wrestle, wrestling, grapple,
grappling, hand-to-hand struggle]
2: the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed
contestants who try to throw each other down [syn:
wrestling, rassling, grappling]
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trespassing
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adj 1: gradually intrusive without right or permission; "we
moved back from the encroaching tide"; "invasive
tourists"; "trespassing hunters" [syn: encroaching(a),
invasive, trespassing(a)]
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leveling
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n 1: changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently
sloping surface [syn: grading, leveling]
2: complete destruction of a building [syn: razing,
leveling, tearing down, demolishing]
3: the act of making equal or uniform [syn: equalization,
equalisation, leveling]
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crediting
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embezzling
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freshening
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sentencing
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unsettling
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