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Gorging
- verb - overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
Gouging
- verb - force with the thumb; "gouge out his eyes"
- make a groove in
- obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"
Gracing
- verb - be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"
- make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"
Grading
- verb - assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation; "grade tests"; "score the SAT essays"; "mark homework"
- assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
- changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface
- determine the grade of or assign a grade to
- evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; "what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do"
- level to the right gradient
- the act of arranging in a graduated series
Grating
- verb - a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- furnish with a grate; "a grated fireplace"
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry; "The injustice rankled her"; "his resentment festered"
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"
- optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
- reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface; "grate carrots and onions"; "grate nutmeg"
- scratch repeatedly; "The cat scraped at the armchair"
- unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
Graving
- verb - carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"
- shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband"
Graying
- verb - make grey; "The painter decided to grey the sky"
- turn grey; "Her hair began to grey"
Graylag
- noun - common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds