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Preying
- verb - prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs"
- profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her insecurity"
Pricing
- verb - ascertain or learn the price of; "Have you priced personal computers lately?"
- determine the price of; "The grocer priced his wares high"
- the evaluation of something in terms of its price
Priding
- verb - be proud of; "He prides himself on making it into law school"
Priming
- verb - any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant
- cover with a primer; apply a primer to
- fill with priming liquid; "prime a car engine"
- insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing; "prime a cannon"; "prime a mine"
- the act of making something ready
- the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
Prising
- verb - make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him"
- regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity"
- to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
Prizing
- verb - hold dear; "I prize these old photographs"
- regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity"
- to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
Probing
- verb - diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation; "a probing inquiry"; "a searching investigation of their past dealings"
- examine physically with or as if with a probe; "probe an anthill"
- question or examine thoroughly and closely
Prosing
- - Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.
Proving
- verb - be shown or be found to be; "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive"
- cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread"
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
- increase in volume; "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"
- obtain probate of; "prove a will"
- prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
- provide evidence for; "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"
- take a trial impression of
Pruning
- verb - cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
- something that has been pruned off of a plant
- the act of trimming a plant
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"