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Stopping
- verb -
- fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
- the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch; "the violinist's stopping was excellent"
Storming
- verb - attack by storm; attack suddenly
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- blow hard; "It was storming all night"
- rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning; "If it storms, we'll need shelter"
- take by force; "Storm the fort"
Storting
- unknown - The Parliament of Norway
Stotting
- unknown - Term for the leaping motion of gazelles, notable the Springbok
Strafing
- verb - attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane; "civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender"
Strawing
- verb - cover or provide with or as if with straw; "cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm"
- spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all over the carpet"
Straying
- verb - lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture"
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
- unable to find your way; "found the straying sheep"
- wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course"
Strewing
- verb - cover; be dispersed over; "Dead bodies strewed the ground"
- spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all over the carpet"
- the act of scattering
Striding
- verb - cover or traverse by taking long steps; "She strode several miles towards the woods"
- walk with long steps; "He strode confidently across the hall"
Striking
- verb - affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight"
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing; "strike a balance"; "strike a bargain"
- attain; "The horse finally struck a pace"
- cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me"; "The thought struck terror in our minds"; "They were struck with fear"
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp; "strike an arc"
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead"
- drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"
- find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a