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Actioning
- verb - institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"
- put in effect; "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation"
Adjoining
- verb - attach or add; "I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter"
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland"
Assigning
- verb - attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
- attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story"
- decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"
- give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- give out; "We were assigned new uniforms"
- make undue claims to having
- select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
- the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"
- transfer one's right to
Attaining
- verb - find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"
- reach a destination, either real or abstract;
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level;
- to gain with effort;
Attorning
- verb - acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord; "he was attorned by the tenants"
Awakening
- verb - cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."
- make aware; "They were awakened to the sad facts"
- stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
- the act of waking; "it was an early awakening"; "it was the waking up he hated most"
Battening
- verb - furnish with battens; "batten ships"
- secure with battens; "batten down a ship's hatches"
Beaconing
- verb - guide with a beacon
- shine like a beacon
Beckoning
- verb - appear inviting; "The shop window decorations beckoned"
- signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably"
- summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture
Bedamning
- verb - wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"