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Stapling
- verb - secure or fasten with a staple or staples; "staple the papers together"
Starling
- noun - gregarious birds native to the Old World
Stealing
- verb - avoiding detection by moving carefully
- move stealthily; "The ship slipped away in the darkness"
- steal a base
- take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"
- the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International"
Steeling
- verb - cover, plate, or edge with steel
- get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
Sterling
- adjective - Alloy of silver containing 92.5% by weight of silver and 7.5% of other metals e.g. copper
- British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK
- highest in quality
Stifling
- verb - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
- characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"
- conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
- smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity"
Stilling
- verb - cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!"
- lessen the intensity of or calm; "The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears"
- make calm or still;
- make motionless
Stirling
- unknown - City in Scotland
Stooling
- verb - grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
- have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"
- lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
- react to a decoy, of wildfowl
Suckling
- verb - a young mammal that has not been weaned
- an infant considered in relation to its nurse
- English poet and courtier (1609-1642)
- feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast
- give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"
- suck milk from the mother's breasts; "the infant was suckling happily"