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Coveting
- verb - wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person); "She covets her sister's house"
Cowering
- verb - crouch or curl up; "They huddled outside in the rain"
- show submission or fear
Cozening
- verb - act with artful deceit
- be false to; be dishonest with
- cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man"
Crabbing
- verb - complain; "What was he hollering about?"
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
- fish for crab
- scurry sideways like a crab
Cracking
- verb -
- a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig"
- break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked"
- break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked"
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe snapped"
- cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair"
- gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions; "she cracked my password"; "crack a safe"
- hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"
- make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped"
- make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked"
- pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"
- reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
- suffer a nervous breakdown
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Cradling
- verb - bring up from infancy
- cut grain with a cradle scythe
- hold gently and carefully; "He cradles the child in his arms"
- hold or place in or as if in a cradle; "He cradled the infant in his arms"
- run with the stick
- wash in a cradle; "cradle gold"
Crafting
- verb - make by hand and with much skill; "The artisan crafted a complicated tool"
Cramming
- verb - crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked"
- prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam
- put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase"
- study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
Cramping
- verb - affect with or as if with a cramp
- prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
- secure with a cramp; "cramp the wood"
- suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle
Cranking
- verb - bend into the shape of a crank
- fasten with a crank
- rotate with a crank
- start by cranking; "crank up the engine"
- travel along a zigzag path; "The river zigzags through the countryside"