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Stinting
- verb - avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
- subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp"
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"
Stirling
- unknown - City in Scotland
Stirring
- verb - affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
- agitating a liquid with an implement; "constant stirring prevents it from burning on the bottom of the pan"
- arousing to a particular emotion or action
- capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement; "a rousing sermon"; "stirring events such as wars and rescues"
- exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions; "a stirring speech"
- mix or add by stirring; "Stir nuts into the dough"
- move an implement through; "stir the soup"; "stir my drink"; "stir the soil"
- move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat"
- stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions"
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wil
Stocking
- verb - amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use; "let's stock coffee as long as prices are low"
- close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)
- equip with a stock; "stock a rifle"
- have on hand; "Do you carry kerosene heaters?"
- provide or furnish with a stock of something; "stock the larder with meat"
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots; "the plant sprouted early this year"
- supply with fish; "stock a lake"
- supply with livestock; "stock a farm"
- the activity of supplying a stock of something; "he supervised the stocking of the stream with trout"
Stomping
- verb - walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots"
Stooging
- verb - act as a stooge, in a compliant or subordinate manner; "He stooged for the flamboyant Senator"
- act as the stooge; "His role was to stooge for the popular comedian"
- cruise in slow or routine flights
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
Stooping
- verb - bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
- carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward; "The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane"
- debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way; "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail"
- descend swiftly, as if on prey; "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"
- having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"
- sag, bend, bend over or down; "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path"
Stopping
- verb -
- fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
- the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch; "the violinist's stopping was excellent"
Storming
- verb - attack by storm; attack suddenly
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- blow hard; "It was storming all night"
- rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning; "If it storms, we'll need shelter"
- take by force; "Storm the fort"