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Estranging
- verb - arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
- making one feel out of place or alienated; "the landscape was estranging"
- remove from customary environment or associations; "years of boarding school estranged the child from her home"
Evocations
- noun - calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations
- imaginative re-creation
- stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors; "the elicitation of his testimony was not easy"
Exchanging
- verb - change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares"
- give to, and receive from, one another; "Would you change places with me?"; "We have been exchanging letters for a year"
- hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent; "exchange prisoners"; "exchange employees between branches of the company"
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
Exclaiming
- verb - an abrupt excited utterance; "she gave an exclamation of delight"; "there was much exclaiming over it"
- state or announce; "`I am not a Communist,' he exclaimed"; "The King will proclaim an amnesty"
- utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy; "`I won!' he exclaimed"; "`Help!' she cried"; "`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost"
Expiations
- noun - compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store"
- the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
Explaining
- verb - define; "The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean"
- make plain and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of physics to his students"
- serve as a reason or cause or justification of; "Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"; "Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again"
Extracting
- verb - calculate the root of a number
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
- extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
- get despite difficulties or obstacles; "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions"
- obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it"
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
- separate (a metal) from an ore
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
Exudations
- noun - a substance that oozes out from plant pores
- the process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes
Fantasying
- verb - indulge in fantasies; "he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company"