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Surveying
- verb - consider in a comprehensive way; "He appraised the situation carefully before acting"
- hold a review (of troops)
- keep under surveillance; "The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing"
- look over carefully or inspect; "He surveyed his new classmates"
- make a survey of; for statistical purposes
- plot a map of (land)
- the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map; "he studied surveying at college"
Surviving
- verb - continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds"
- continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"
- live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"
- still in existence; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"
- support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
Suspiring
- verb - draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring"
- heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily; "She sighed sadly"
Swaddling
- verb - wrap in swaddling clothes; "swaddled the infant"
Swan Song
- noun - a final performance or effort (especially before retirement)
Sweat Bag
- noun - a porous bag (usually of canvas) that holds water and cools it by evaporation
Sweptwing
- adjective - (of an aircraft) having sweptback wings; "a sweptwing aircraft"
Swindling
- verb - deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
- Taken for a ride
Swingeing
- adjective - severe; punishingly bad; "swingeing taxation"; "swingeing damages awarded by the judge"