Matching Words
1931 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
Strapping
- verb - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
- muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a strapping boy of eighteen"; "`buirdly' is a Scottish term"
- secure (a sprained joint) with a strap
- sharpen with a strap; "strap a razor"
- tie with a strap
- Without,or very short of money
Strasberg
- noun - United States actor and film director (born in Austria) who was a leader in developing method acting in the United States (1901-1982)
Streaking
- verb - mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
- move quickly in a straight line; "The plane streaked across the sky"
- run naked in a public place
Streaming
- verb - (computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data; "streaming audio"; "streaming video recording"
- exude profusely; "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose streamed blood"
- exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts; "his streaming face"; "her streaming eyes"
- flow freely and abundantly; "Tears streamed down her face"
- move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
- rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"
- the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell
- to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind; "their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind"
Stressing
- verb - put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
- test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"
- to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
Striating
- verb - Lined
- mark with striae or striations
Stringing
- verb - add as if on a string; "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical"
- move or come along
- provide with strings; "string my guitar"
- remove the stringy parts of; "string beans"
- stretch out or arrange like a string
- string together; tie or fasten with a string; "string the package"
- thread on or as if on a string; "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries"
Stripling
- noun - a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
Stripping
- verb - draw the last milk (of cows)
- get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
- lay bare; "denude a forest"
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"
- remove a constituent from a liquid
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"
- remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil"
- remove the surface from; "strip wood"
- remove the thread (of screws)
- steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
- strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"
- take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripp
Strolling
- verb - walk leisurely and with no apparent aim