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Sorbing
- verb - take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
Sorting
- verb - an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting"
- arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
- examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
- grouping by class or kind or size
- the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
Souping
- verb - dope (a racehorse)
Souring
- verb - go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
- make sour or more sour
- the process of becoming sour
Sousing
- verb - become drunk or drink excessively
- cook in a marinade; "souse herring"
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"
- the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching"
Spacing
- verb - place at intervals; "Space the interviews so that you have some time between the different candidates"
- the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them
- the time between occurrences of a repeating event; "some women do not control the spacing of their children"
Spading
- verb - dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower beds"
Sparing
- verb - avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
- give up what is not strictly needed; "he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey"
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action; "I'll spare you from having to apologize formally"
- use frugally or carefully
Spaying
- verb - neutering a female by removing the ovaries
- remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?"
Spewing
- verb -
- eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical; "the volcano spews out molten rocks every day"; "The editors of the paper spew out hostile articles about the Presidential candidate"
- expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth; "The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer"