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Elating
- verb - Buoy spirits
- fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits"
- making lively and joyful
Erasing
- verb - remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"
- remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
- wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"
Evading
- verb - avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
- Dodges
- escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
- practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades"
- use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con man always evades"
Fearing
- verb -
- be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event;
- be afraid or scared of; be frightened of;
- be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement;
- be uneasy or apprehensive about;
Flaking
- verb - come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
- cover with flakes or as if with flakes
- form into flakes; "The substances started to flake"
Flaming
- verb - informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"
- be in flames or aflame; "The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset"
- criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium; "the person who posted an inflammatory message got flamed"
- shine with a sudden light; "The night sky flared with the massive bombardment"
- the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
- very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions"
Flaring
- verb - become flared and widen, usually at one end; "The bellbottom pants flare out"
- burn brightly; "Every star seemed to flare with new intensity"
- erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism"
- shine with a sudden light; "The night sky flared with the massive bombardment"
- streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her"; "flags aflare in the breeze"
Flawing
- verb - add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective
Flaying
- verb - heavy criticism
- strip the skin off
Foaling
- verb - give birth to a foal; "the mare foaled"