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Suradanni
- - A valuable kind of wood obtained on the shores of the Demerara River in South America, much used for timbers, rails, naves and fellies of wheels, and the like.
Surfacing
- verb - appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again"
- come to the surface
- emerging to the surface and becoming apparent
- put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface; "coat the cake with chocolate"
Surmising
- verb - imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it"
- infer from incomplete evidence
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"
Susurrant
- adjective - making a low continuous indistinct sound; "like murmuring waves"; "susurrant voices"
- whispering, sibilant
Suzerains
- noun - a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs
Swaddling
- verb - wrap in swaddling clothes; "swaddled the infant"