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Sousing
- verb - become drunk or drink excessively
- cook in a marinade; "souse herring"
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"
- the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching"
Sow Bug
- noun - terrestrial isopod having an oval segmented body (a shape like a sow)
Spacing
- verb - place at intervals; "Space the interviews so that you have some time between the different candidates"
- the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them
- the time between occurrences of a repeating event; "some women do not control the spacing of their children"
Spading
- verb - dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower beds"
Sparing
- verb - avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
- give up what is not strictly needed; "he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey"
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action; "I'll spare you from having to apologize formally"
- use frugally or carefully
Spaying
- verb - neutering a female by removing the ovaries
- remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?"
Spewing
- verb -
- eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical; "the volcano spews out molten rocks every day"; "The editors of the paper spew out hostile articles about the Presidential candidate"
- expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth; "The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer"
Spicing
- verb - add herbs or spices to
- make more interesting or flavorful; "Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer"
Spiking
- verb - add alcohol to (beverages); "the punch is spiked!"
- bring forth a spike or spikes; "my hyacinths and orchids are spiking now"
- manifest a sharp increase; "the voltage spiked"
- pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer"
- secure with spikes
- stand in the way of
Spiring
- - Shooting up in a spire or spires.