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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"
Pudding
- noun - (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally)
- any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed
- any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes;
Puffing
- verb - an act of forcible exhalation
- blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"
- blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing"
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"
- make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego"
- praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
- smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe"
- speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man"
- suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"
- to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests"
Pugging
- - The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.
Pulling
- verb - apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion; "Pull the rope"; "Pull the handle towards you"; "pull the string gently"; "pull the trigger of the gun"; "pull your knees towards your chin"
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover; "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim"
- cause to move by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense; "A declining dollar pulled down the export figures for the last quarter"
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes; "Her good looks attract the stares of many men"; "The ad pulled in many potential customers"; "This pianist pulls huge crowds"; "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers"
- hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing
Pulping
- verb - reduce to pulp; "pulp fruit"; "pulp wood"
- remove the pulp from, as from a fruit
Pulsing
- verb - (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"
- drive by or as if by pulsation; "A soft breeze pulsed the air"
- expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"
- produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"
Pumping
- verb - deliver forth; "pump bullets into the dummy"
- draw or pour with a pump
- flow intermittently
- move up and down; "The athlete pumps weights in the gym"
- operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal; "pump the gas pedal"
- question persistently; "She pumped the witnesses for information"
- raise (gases or fluids) with a pump
- supply in great quantities; "Pump money into a project"
Punning
- verb - a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
- make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning"