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Oohing
- verb - express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'; "They oohed and aahed when they unwrapped the presents"
Oozing
- verb - leaking out slowly
- pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
- release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude sweat through the pores"
- the process of seeping
Poking
- verb -
- a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist"
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"
- make a hole by poking
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office"
- stir by poking; "poke the embers in the fireplace"
Poling
- verb - deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole
- propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went punting in Cambridge"
- support on poles; "pole climbing plants like beans"
Poring
- verb - direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
Posing
- verb - (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait); "he wanted his portrait painted but couldn't spare time for the sitting"
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
- be a mystery or bewildering to;
- behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself"
- introduce; "This poses an interesting question"
- pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
- put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
Robing
- verb - clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes
- cover as if with clothing; "the mountain was clothed in tropical trees"
Roping
- verb - capturing cattle or horses with a lasso
- catch with a lasso; "rope cows"
- fasten with a rope; "rope the bag securely"
Roving
- verb - migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
- travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"
Rowing
- verb - Created a noisy squabble
- propel with oars; "row the boat across the lake"
- the act of rowing as a sport