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Beaconing
- verb - guide with a beacon
- shine like a beacon
Beckoning
- verb - appear inviting; "The shop window decorations beckoned"
- signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably"
- summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture
Bedamning
- verb - wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"
Beginning
- verb - achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative; "This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation"; "You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war"
- be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series; "The number `one' begins the sequence"; "A terrible murder begins the novel"; "The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester"
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object; "begin a cigar"; "She started the soup while it was still hot"; "We started physics in 10th grade"
- begin to speak or say; "Now listen, friends," he began
- begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language; "She began Russian at an early age"; "We started French in fourth grade"
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way; "The novel begins with a murder"; "My property beg
Bemoaning
- verb - regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits"
Benignant
- adjective - characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects; "our benignant king"
- pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence; "a benign smile"; "the benign sky"; "the benign influence of pure air"
Deadening
- verb - become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
- convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
- cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant"
- lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"
- make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"
- make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message"
- make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters i
Deafening
- verb - be unbearably loud; "a deafening noise"
- loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss
- make or render deaf; "a deafening noise"
- make soundproof; "deafen a room"
Declining
- verb -
- go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"
- go down; "The roof declines here"
- grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"
- grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"
- inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"
- show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike"
- Turn down
Deepening
- verb - a process of becoming deeper and more profound
- accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the thickening dusk"
- become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password"
- become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"
- make deeper; "They deepened the lake so that bigger pleasure boats could use it"
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions"