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Tousling
- verb - disarrange or rumple; dishevel; "The strong wind tousled my hair"
Toweling
- verb - any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels
- wipe with a towel; "towel your hair dry"
Trailing
- verb - drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground; "The toddler was trailing his pants"; "She trained her long scarf behind her"
- go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"
- hang down so as to drag along the ground; "The bride's veiled trailed along the ground"
- move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly; "John trailed behind his class mates"; "The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart"
- the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind
- to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"
Trawling
- verb - fish with trawlers
Trebling
- verb - increase threefold; "Triple your income!"
- sing treble
Trifling
- verb - act frivolously
- consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"
- not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"
- the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
Trilling
- verb - pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r'; "Some speakers trill their r's"
- sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below
- United States literary critic (1905-1975)
Tripling
- verb - hit a three-base hit
- increase by a factor of three
- increase threefold; "Triple your income!"
Trolling
- verb - angle with a hook and line drawn through the water
- angling by drawing a baited line through the water
- cause to move round and round; "The child trolled her hoop"
- circulate, move around
- On line baiting of people
- praise or celebrate in song; "All tongues shall troll you"
- sing loudly and without inhibition
- sing the parts of (a round) in succession
- speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice
Tumbling
- verb - cause to topple or tumble by pushing
- do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
- fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down"
- fall down, as if collapsing;
- fall suddenly and sharply; "Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency"
- fly around; "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"; "rising smoke whirled in the air"
- put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying; "Wash in warm water and tumble dry"
- roll over and over, back and forth
- suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
- the gymnastic moves of an acrobat
- throw together in a confused mass; "They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern"
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"