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Seasoning
- verb - lend flavor to; "Season the chicken breast after roasting it"
- make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism"
- something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts
- the act of adding a seasoning to food
Secerning
- verb - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
Sermoning
- - The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching.
Sickening
- verb - cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
- causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
- get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital"
- make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me"
- upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners"
Siphoning
- verb - convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon
- move a liquid from one container into another by means of a siphon or a siphoning action; "siphon gas into the tank"
Softening
- verb -
- become soft or softer; "The bread will soften if you pour some liquid on it"
- give in, as to influence or pressure
- having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin
- make (images or sounds) soft or softer
- make less severe or harsh; "He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears"
- make soft or softer; "This liquid will soften your laundry"
- protect from impact; "cushion the blow"
- the process of becoming softer; "refrigeration delayed the softening of the fruit"; "he observed the softening of iron by heat"
Sopranino
- adjective - higher in range than soprano; "a sopranino recorder"
Straining
- verb - alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
- an intense or violent exertion
- become stretched or tense or taut;
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;
- remove by passing through a filter;
- rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender; "puree the vegetables for the baby"
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
- taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"- F.D.Roosevelt
- test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- to exert much effort or energy;
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity;
Suborning
- verb - incite to commit a crime or an evil deed; "He suborned his butler to cover up the murder of his wife"
- induce to commit perjury or give false testimony; "The President tried to suborn false witnesses"
- procure (false testimony or perjury)