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Striping
- verb - mark with stripes
- the act of marking with stripes
Striving
- verb - an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy"
- to exert much effort or energy;
- tried
- Try hard
Stroking
- verb - a light touch with the hands
- row at a particular rate
- strike a ball with a smooth blow
- touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions; "He stroked his long beard"
- treat gingerly or carefully; "You have to stroke the boss"
Stubbing
- verb - clear of weeds by uprooting them; "stub a field"
- extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigarette now"
- pull up (weeds) by their roots
- strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object; "She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it's broken"
Studding
- verb - provide with or construct with studs; "stud the wall"
- scatter or intersperse like dots or studs; "Hills constellated with lights"
Studying
- verb - be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam"
- be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning
- consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives"
- give careful consideration to; "consider the possibility of moving"
- learn by reading books; "He is studying geology in his room"; "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now"
- reading carefully with intent to remember
- think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes; "
Stuffing
- verb - a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
- cram into a cavity; "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
- fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"
- fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
- obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
- padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture
- press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin"
Stumping
- verb - campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches)
- cause to be perplexed or confounded; "This problem stumped her"
- remove tree stumps from; "stump a field"
- travel through a district and make political speeches; "the candidate stumped the Northeast"
- walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots"
Stunning
- verb - causing great astonishment and consternation; "the strike came as a stunning protest against management"; "a stunning defeat"
- causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility; "laid the poor fellow senseless with one stunning blow"; "a stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke"
- commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance"
- hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
- make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
- overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her"
- strikingly beautiful or attractive; "quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"; "stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"
Stunting
- verb - check the growth or development of; "You will stunt your growth by building all these muscles"
- perform a stunt or stunts
- the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft