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Graphing
- verb - plot upon a graph
- represent by means of a graph; "chart the data"
Grasping
- verb - get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
- hold firmly
- immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
- the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
- understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"
Grassing
- verb - cover with grass
- cover with grass; "The owners decided to grass their property"
- feed with grass
- give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"
- shoot down, of birds
- spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
Grayling
- - A European fish (Thymallus vulgaris), allied to the trout, but having a very broad dorsal fin; -- called also umber. It inhabits cold mountain streams, and is valued as a game fish.
Greasing
- verb - lubricate with grease; "grease the wheels"
Greening
- verb - the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored; "the annual rejuvenation of the landscape"
- turn or become green; "The trees are greening"
Greeting
- verb - (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting)
- be perceived by; "Loud music greeted him when he entered the apartment"
- express greetings upon meeting someone
- react to in a certain way; "The President was greeted with catcalls"
- send greetings to
Grieving
- verb - cause to feel sorrow; "his behavior grieves his mother"
- feel grief
- sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope"
Grilling
- verb - cook over a grill; "grill the sausages"
- cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)
- examine thoroughly; "the student was grilled for two hours on the subject of phonology"
Grinding
- verb - a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears)
- created by grinding; "grind designs into the glass bowl"
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"
- material resulting from the process of grinding; "vegetable grindings clogged the drain"
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"
- shape or form by grinding; "grind lenses for glasses and cameras"
- the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice
- work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"