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asking
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n 1: the verbal act of requesting [syn: request, asking]
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blasting
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adj 1: causing injury or blight; especially affecting with
sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects
of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting
force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our
faces"; "a ruinous war" [syn: blasting, ruinous]
2: unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of
trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his
car radio" [syn: blaring, blasting]
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crashing
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adj 1: informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking)
nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you
flaming idiot" [syn: bally(a), blinking(a),
bloody(a), blooming(a), crashing(a), flaming(a),
fucking(a)]
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fasting
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n 1: abstaining from food [syn: fast, fasting]
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lacking
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adj 1: inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education";
"deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina";
"tested and found wanting" [syn: deficient,
lacking(p), wanting(p)]
2: nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was
lacking" [syn: lacking, absent, missing, wanting]
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lasting
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adj 1: continuing or enduring without marked change in status or
condition or place; "permanent secretary to the
president"; "permanent address"; "literature of permanent
value" [syn: permanent, lasting] [ant: impermanent,
temporary]
2: existing for a long time; "hopes for a durable peace"; "a
long-lasting friendship" [syn: durable, lasting, long-
lasting, long-lived]
3: retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past
maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes" [syn:
persistent, lasting] [ant: caducous, shed]
4: lasting a long time without change; "a lasting relationship"
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laughing
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adj 1: showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness;
"laughing children" [syn: laughing(a), riant]
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masking
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n 1: the act of concealing the existence of something by
obstructing the view of it; "the cover concealed their guns
from enemy aircraft" [syn: cover, covering,
screening, masking]
2: the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of
another sensation; "he studied auditory masking by pure
tones"
3: scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the
stage that should not be seen [syn: masking piece,
masking]
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passing
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adv 1: to an extreme degree; "extremely cold"; "extremely
unpleasant" [syn: extremely, exceedingly, super,
passing]
adj 1: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of
childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient
beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal";
"fugacious blossoms" [syn: ephemeral, passing,
short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious]
2: of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good
passing attack"; "a pass play" [syn: passing(a), pass(a)]
[ant: running(a)]
3: allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection)
satisfactorily; "a passing grade"
4: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a
casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's
structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"
[syn: casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctory]
n 1: (American football) a play that involves one player
throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a
passing play on third and long" [syn: pass, passing
play, passing game, passing]
2: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his
passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, exit,
expiration, going, release]
3: the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar
passings can perturb the orbits of comets" [syn: passing,
passage]
4: the end of something; "the passing of winter"
5: a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to
another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of
flatus" [syn: passage, passing]
6: going by something that is moving in order to get in front of
it; "she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car
on the road frightened me" [syn: passing, overtaking]
7: success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future
depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in
introductory chemistry" [syn: passing, pass,
qualifying] [ant: failing, flunk]
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walking
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adj 1: close enough to be walked to; "walking distance"; "the
factory with the big parking lot...is more convenient
than the walk-to factory" [syn: walk-to(a),
walking(a)]
n 1: the act of traveling by foot; "walking is a healthy form of
exercise" [syn: walk, walking]
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basking
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gasping
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multitasking
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rapping
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stacking
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