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Verb
Present participle for to give a particular shape or form to
Present participle for to have a great influence on, or determine the nature of
Present participle for to put together using parts or materials
Present participle for to come up with a plan, idea or design
Present participle for to affect or exert an influence on
Present participle for to design or produce (something) to meet someone's individual requirements
Present participle for to cause a profound effect
Present participle for to carry out a plan with a specific purpose in mind
Present participle for to train or mold by instruction or example
Present participle for to attend to one's appearance, typically one's hair
Present participle for mix by pressing
Present participle for to arrange systematically
Present participle for to trim the fingernails
Present participle for to smooth or level out by rubbing or applying friction
Present participle for to decorate or make more attractive
Present participle for to line or pack with soft material
Present participle for to tidy something up by cutting away irregular or unwanted parts
Present participle for to alter something from its true state, typically to deceive
Noun
The action of forming or process of being formed
Something manufactured
The craft of making statues
A slight alteration or modification
Adjective
Capable of forming something
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▲
Verb
▲
Present participle for to give a particular shape or form to
making
casting
fashioning
forming
framing
modelling
UK
modeling
US
moulding
UK
sculpting
adapting
creating
molding
US
sculpturing
adjusting
carving
cutting
fitting
hewing
patterning
whittling
blocking
conditioning
forging
manipulating
tailoring
assembling
fabricating
patting
roughhewing
smoothing
accommodating
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
conforming
crystallising
UK
crystallizing
US
doctoring
editing
kneading
minting
suiting
trimming
blocking out
bringing together
throwing together
acclimatizing
US
working
acclimating
acclimatising
UK
hammering
putting
habituating
chipping
constructing
accustoming
engraving
incising
familiarizing
US
beating
attuning
integrating
assimilating
acculturating
reconciling
familiarising
UK
plying
getting used to
styling
building
processing
axing
preparing
sculping
pounding
dressing
rough-hewing
designing
malleating
etching
slashing
drawing
hardening
inscribing
seasoning
acculturing
domesticating
blending
tooling
beating into shape
becoming accustomed
matching
getting accustomed
tuning
getting used
beating out
becoming seasoned
becoming naturalized
familiarizing with
coming to accept
familiarizing oneself with
coming to terms with
learning to live with
tailor-making
flattening
manufacturing
scoring
turning
priming
thumbing
fingering
roughcasting
founding
tempering
readying
stamping
ornamenting
decorating
pruning
striking
stroking
holding
treating
erecting
configuring
devising
portraying
depicting
knocking together
turning out
softening
chasing
embellishing
describing
rendering
putting together
making ready
hacking
die-casting
handling
composing
following
graving
slicing
altering
harmonizing
US
settling
complying
harmonising
UK
modifying
proportioning
corresponding
paring
dissecting
dividing
sundering
stippling
indenting
scribing
cleaving
dissevering
presenting
swimming with the stream
following the crowd
following custom
running with the pack
following tradition
fitting in
following beaten path
going along to get along
keeping in step
following convention
rolling with punches
becoming accustomed to
getting your bearings
making consistent
shaping up
finding your feet
finding one's way around
cutting in slices
mixing
squeezing
tending
laboring
US
labouring
UK
naturalizing
US
inuring
becoming inured
becoming resigned
resigning yourself
naturalising
UK
caring for
working on
toughening
jacking up
climatizing
more ❯
“
Shape
the dough into a loaf, then place it seam up into the basket.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to have a great influence on, or determine the nature of
defining
forming
developing
affecting
fashioning
influencing
molding
US
moulding
UK
creating
determining
framing
guiding
producing
adapting
making
modelling
UK
modeling
US
building
conditioning
constructing
devising
regulating
remodeling
US
remodelling
UK
charting
choreographing
converting
designing
growing
modifying
becoming
laying out
mapping out
directing
controlling
leading
swaying
steering
transforming
manipulating
jockeying
styling
ordering
categorising
UK
patterning
emulating
copying
decorating
following
imitating
categorizing
US
more ❯
“His inspiring speech would
shape
my future for many years to come.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to put together using parts or materials
fabricating
making
constructing
building
creating
assembling
forming
fashioning
producing
forging
manufacturing
composing
erecting
framing
confecting
modelling
UK
modeling
US
contriving
raising
engineering
piecing
rearing
formulating
organising
UK
organizing
US
joining
structuring
elevating
prefabbing
mixing
brainstorming
setting up
putting together
making up
putting up
turning out
knocking together
piecing together
throwing together
cobbling up
fitting together
whipping up
throwing up
cobbling together
whomping up
building up
molding
US
compiling
connecting
fitting
sewing
welding
moulding
UK
joining up
patching up
sewing up
developing
devising
concocting
systematizing
US
systemizing
marshalling
UK
arranging
inventing
marshaling
US
gathering
collating
preparing
amassing
sorting out
collecting
anthologizing
linking
combining
accumulating
running up
bringing together
rustling up
systematising
UK
drawing up
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to come up with a plan, idea or design
devising
contriving
planning
concocting
designing
inventing
creating
framing
formulating
arranging
constructing
developing
plotting
hatching
scheming
forming
conceiving
fabricating
producing
preparing
originating
composing
machinating
forging
masterminding
manufacturing
crafting
coining
intriguing
projecting
excogitating
evolving
blueprinting
improvising
brainstorming
cogitating
casting
imagining
charting
sparking
discovering
vamping
thinking up
making up
putting together
cooking up
dreaming up
setting up
working out
drawing up
coming up with
trumping up
throwing together
drumming up
ad-libbing
vamping up
whipping up
faking it
playing it by ear
thinking of
hitting on
doping out
getting off
organizing
US
fashioning
organising
UK
making
building
choreographing
engineering
mapping out
moulding
UK
molding
US
laying out
scheming out
strategizing about
budgeting
assembling
drafting
modelling
UK
modeling
US
calculating
outlining
establishing
orchestrating
erecting
constituting
founding
bringing about
setting
installing
knocking together
beginning
blocking out
effecting
working
piecing
hammering out
turning out
confecting
putting up
brewing
strategizing
starting
directing
instituting
carving
executing
fixing
sketching
readying
rendering
sculpturing
completing
prefabricating
structuring
sculpting
mapping
throwing up
building up
fitting together
coordinating
adjusting
scheduling
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
setting out
initiating
roughing out
sketching out
ordering
introducing
raising
fixing up
inaugurating
managing
launching
manipulating
enacting
generating
actualizing
authoring
affecting
accomplishing
doing
synthesizing
US
rigging
jacking up
bringing into existence
cobbling up
putting in place
piecing together
fudging together
synthesising
UK
adapting
fitting
tailoring
planning out
detailing
steering
marshaling
US
marshalling
UK
negotiating
tracing
quarterbacking
making arrangements
commencing
finessing
programming
hewing
conducting
instigating
processing
perfecting
determining
thrashing out
deciding
effectuating
compounding
rearing
patterning
setting in motion
setting down
catalyzing
US
realizing
US
fulfilling
securing
working up
getting ready
carving out
running up
starting up
making arrangements for
germinating
engendering
knocking off
putting in motion
realising
UK
materializing
US
configuring
catalysing
UK
prefabbing
bringing to pass
bringing into being
settling on
superstructing
jerry-building
giving rise to
materialising
UK
knocking up
purposing
intending
proposing
balancing
gearing
deriving
envisioning
conceiving of
drawing
writing
premeditating
slating
contemplating
finagling
delineating
forecasting
representing
conspiring
wangling
embarking on
adumbrating
thinking ahead
exercising
fixing in position
skeletoning
roughing
chalking out
meditating
thinking out
planning ahead
fixing to
figuring out
laying in provisions
reckoning on
bargaining for
figuring on
roughing in
lining up
throwing
diagramming
comprising
diagraming
elevating
putting out
exploiting
compiling
edifying
carpentering
joining
reconstructing
aligning
advancing
influencing
conjuring up
controlling
giving structure to
supplying
laying
editing
equipping
estimating
bringing
translating into
bringing on
plotting out
tracing out
stage-managing
accoutreing
accoutring
furnishing
prepping
outfitting
rustling up
begetting
knocking out
patching together
churning out
cobbling together
eking out
yielding
implementing
spawning
whipping out
rigging up
commissioning
settling
using
guiding
appointing
anticipating
grooming
endowing
costing
stamping
running
resolving
making ready
accounting
fitting out
smoothing the way
getting up
putting in order
filling in
making provision
making financial arrangements
costing out
predicting
computing
making provisions
mass-producing
finishing
cutting
consummating
authorizing
US
playing upon
turning to one's advantage
using to advantage
machining
cobbling
milling
tooling
coming to terms about
coming to terms
pulling things together
agreeing on
setting stage
making preparations for
preparing for
ironing out
shaping up
penciling in
coming to an agreement
making plans for
making plans
agreeing to
legislating
empowering
passing
ordaining
administrating
mobilizing
US
investing
chartering
innovating
placing
planting
inducting
decreeing
pioneering
designating
delegating
deputing
achieving
timetabling
mounting
concerting
mobilising
UK
authorising
UK
laying down
seeing to
sorting out
dealing with
being responsible for
budgeting for
getting off the ground
straightening out
getting going
looking after
laying the foundations of
seeing about
getting together
taking care of
licking into shape
carrying through
making a reality
bringing off
bringing to fruition
making happen
grinding out
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to affect or exert an influence on
having an effect on
affecting
influencing
touching
swaying
striking
deciding
determining
controlling
altering
modifying
biasing
US
biassing
UK
transforming
governing
changing
guiding
forming
conditioning
infecting
hitting
attacking
impacting on
acting on
exerting influence on
working on
having an impact on
striking at
taking hold of
interacting with
dictating
molding
US
moulding
UK
manipulating
impacting
predisposing
bearing upon
impinging upon
constraining
forecasting
having a bearing on
codetermining
regulating
ruling
directing
mastering
underlying
getting the better of
disciplining
being a factor in
shepherding
holding in check
disposing
upsetting
reshaping
converting
shifting
adjusting
amending
stirring
troubling
perturbing
disturbing
overwhelming
grieving
distressing
saddening
paining
devastating
involving
damaging
hurting
agitating
concerning
moving
shaking
reaching
impressing
hitting hard
throwing
fazing
prevailing
bowling over
impressing on
telling on
relating
going to your head
turning someone's head
inspiring
making an impression on
shaking up
overcoming
knocking back
prevailing over
getting to
emotionally moving
inducing
impinging
knocking for six
regarding
interesting
marking
tugging at your heartstrings
stimulating
getting through to
exciting
carrying
tainting
filling with emotion
arousing
impassioning
making an impression
striking a chord
quickening
grabbing
getting
leaving an impression on
touching a chord
animating
getting through
registering with
carrying weight with
rubbing off on
injuring
corrupting
vitiating
destroying
afflicting
crippling
meddling
leaving a mark on
interfering with
interrupting
making an impact on
imposing
ruining
spoiling
marring
contaminating
impairing
demolishing
annihilating
ravaging
pertaining to
referring to
centering upon
belonging to
bearing on
compromising
harming
distorting
exerting an influence on
stretching
coloring
US
angling
slanting
skewing
warping
garbling
prejudicing
twisting
bending
doctoring
colouring
UK
steering
breaking
sabotaging
polluting
defiling
occurring
persuading
poisoning
crushing
weakening
blighting
debasing
motivating
wearing away
drawing
prevailing on
convincing
urging
bringing in
winning over
capturing
impelling
spurring
spreading to
playing havoc with
wreaking havoc on
striking down
doing damage to
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to design or produce (something) to meet someone's individual requirements
personalising
UK
personalizing
US
customising
UK
customizing
US
tailoring
fashioning
fitting
designing
adapting
suiting
styling
accommodating
moulding
UK
attuning
changing
individualising
UK
individualizing
US
modifying
making
molding
US
differentiating
specifying
tailor-making
custom-making
making distinctive
making to order
custom-building
giving a personal touch to
adjusting
altering
converting
doctoring
editing
transforming
conditioning
reconciling
conforming
putting
metamorphosing
remodelling
UK
remodeling
US
revising
reshaping
tweaking
readjusting
varying
acclimatizing
US
acclimating
squaring
acclimatising
UK
mutating
arranging
transmuting
transfiguring
reconstructing
reforming
revamping
refashioning
reworking
restyling
fixing
amending
turning
improving
tuning
quadrating
evolving
cutting
forming
remaking
morphing
rebuilding
redoing
reorganizing
US
rearranging
shifting
redesigning
regulating
rejigging
overhauling
sharpening
recasting
transposing
refining
diverging
reconditioning
transmogrifying
rectifying
translating
transubstantiating
refitting
correcting
fixing up
making adjustments to
straightening
making alterations to
reorganising
UK
making over
patterning
planning
producing
qualifying
plotting
proportioning
bending
preparing
making appropriate for
making fitting to
fitting in
making appropriate to
making fitting for
making improvements to
sizing
putting in place
putting in position
measuring
disposing
resolving
naturalizing
US
filing down
squaring off
merging
progressing
commutating
materializing
US
naturalising
UK
deforming
reducing
materialising
UK
renovating
renewing
reorienting
revolutionizing
US
reordering
remoulding
UK
reorientating
reshuffling
rehashing
retooling
alchemizing
gearing
developing
redeveloping
modulating
metamorphosizing
reconstituting
updating
upgrading
trimming
singing different tune
diversifying
switching
stirring up
turning upside down
redrafting
revolutionising
UK
commuting
tampering with
remolding
US
switching over
shifting gears
transferring
doing up
turning the tables
turning the corner
regenerating
refurbishing
rejiggering
permuting
rehabilitating
cooking
warping
denaturing
making innovations
changing completely
recalibrating
turning around
permutating
reconfiguring
affecting
interchanging
turning over new leaf
cutting to fit
shaping up
making to measure
dovetailing
growing
rendering
becoming
generating
setting
ordering
calibrating
balancing
settling
enhancing
repairing
normalizing
US
redressing
aligning
jiggering
coordinating
organizing
US
patching up
tightening
bringing into line
focussing
putting right
grading
troubleshooting
harmonizing
US
tuning up
sorting
normalising
UK
harmonising
UK
focusing
setting right
twiddling
mending
putting in working order
seeing to
making conform
making good
fiddling with
fine-tuning
setting to rights
organising
UK
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause a profound effect
impacting
affecting
altering
changing
abating
determining
governing
modifying
transforming
deciding
reshaping
exerting influence
having an effect
having an influence
making an impression
touching
working
afflicting
agitating
biasing
US
biassing
UK
impressing
moving
reaching
bearing on
bearing upon
touching on
weighing into
Verb
▲
Present participle for to carry out a plan with a specific purpose in mind
designing
intending
aiming
devising
contriving
purposing
planning
tailoring
fashioning
making fitting
adjusting
adapting
proposing
purporting
conceiving
constructing
fitting
preparing
gearing
equipping
meaning
destining
orienting
Verb
▲
Present participle for to train or mold by instruction or example
forming
developing
training
disciplining
molding
US
moulding
UK
schooling
teaching
educating
instructing
guiding
coaching
drilling
grooming
tutoring
directing
edifying
enlightening
inculcating
indoctrinating
informing
preparing
priming
versing
bettering
cultivating
elevating
improving
rearing
uplifting
breeding
giving character
bringing up
equipping
lessoning
upskilling
leading
honing
showing the ropes
fostering
nurturing
advising
advancing
showing
promoting
supporting
managing
giving instruction to
seasoning
exercising
readying
piloting
mentoring
fitting
conditioning
rehearsing
practising
UK
qualifying
grounding
hardening
giving lessons to
updating
putting through the mill
putting someone through their paces
making fit
taming
caring for
breaking in
drumming into
whipping into shape
making something clear to
practicing
US
inuring
licking into shape
sharpening
making ready
putting through the grind
demonstrating to
instilling
brainwashing
briefing
programming
counseling
US
counselling
UK
initiating
habituating
lecturing
acquainting
illuminating
familiarizing
US
explaining
raising
accustoming
familiarising
UK
getting ready
propagandizing
US
propagandising
UK
walking through
giving lessons
proselytizing
US
working over
implanting
imbuing
persuading
warming up
telling
getting into shape
socializing
US
breaking
tending
influencing
catechizing
proselytising
UK
socialising
UK
demonstrating
adapting
prepping
parenting
clueing in
filling in
familiarizing with
hypnotizing
US
working out
giving pointers
giving hints
giving information to
giving someone tips
working
setting up
giving instruction
looking after
tailoring
illustrating
compelling
manipulating
taking care of
planting
communicating
apprising
convincing
clearing
ordering
illuming
hipping
illumining
inspiring
helping
introducing
shepherding
steering
housetraining
housebreaking
dinning something into
setting
hypnotising
UK
preaching
mothering
clarifying
organizing
US
catching up
describing
cluing
clueing
presenting
orientating
bracing
nursing
letting in on
giving advice to
tuning up
nourishing
giving counsel to
toilet training
giving counselling to
breaking down
laying it out for
cherishing
getting set
giving direction to
giving the facts
adjusting
filling in on
acquainting with
making conversant with
coaching in
instructing in
training in
making suggestions to
making recommendations to
cluing up on
cluing in on
making clear
priming in
schooling in
genning up on
organising
UK
providing for
putting in the picture
providing
giving the gen about
putting in the picture about
attending to
giving the low-down on
regimenting
studying
arming
empowering
sparring
making suitable
making experienced
civilizing
US
maturing
showing the way
homeschooling
civilising
UK
shadowboxing
making familiar with
imparting
orienting
watching over
learning
notifying
giving instructions
expounding
pointing out
explicating
pounding into
opening eyes
polishing up
equipping with
supervising
radicalizing
US
shaping up
getting used to
toughening up
loosening up
aiding
teaching school
teaching information
bolstering
backing
nursling
tutoring in
teaching about
drilling in
grounding in
making aware of
giving a grounding in
sponsoring
basing
radicalising
UK
fanaticizing
extremizing
laboring
US
straining
labouring
UK
endowing
improving mind
giving someone an idea
giving the lowdown
supplying with facts
giving the low-down
genning up
cluing up
dinning
enabling
facilitating
explaining things to
showing the way to
disclosing
predicating
resting
suiting
hanging
drilling into
impressing upon
hammering into
exemplifying
informing about
keeping posted
putting through grind
putting through mill
cautioning
displaying
fixing
planning
exhibiting
giving counsel
giving advice
protecting
poising
giving guidance
giving counselling
giving direction
anticipating
arranging
giving directions
offering suggestions
offering opinions
making recommendations
allowing
laying
fortifying
forearming
making provision
making familiar
making conversant
ostending
fitting out
making up
arming oneself
putting together
making plans for
paving the way
laying out
taking measures
forearming oneself
making arrangements
making plans
making preparations
taking precautions
making provision for
contriving
laying the groundwork
guarding
taking steps
giving an idea of
educating in
accustoming to
teaching in
habituating to
showing how something is done
giving a demonstration of
showing how something works
initiating into
mixing
using
popularising
UK
wonting
naturalising
UK
popularizing
US
introducing to
indoctrinating in
casing
naturalizing
US
posting
keeping up to date
putting wise to
getting up to date
putting on to
coming to know
getting to know about
getting to know
getting lowdown on
keeping up to speed with
getting with it
becoming adept in
giving a rundown of
bringing into common use
gaining friendship
breaking the ice
checking out
letting next to
getting lay of land
becoming aware of
tipping off
getting together
making used to
bringing into use
awakening to
letting know
letting down hair
getting in
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to attend to one's appearance, typically one's hair
doing
styling
making
setting
coiffing
coifing
adjusting
arranging
brushing
grooming
preening
primping
prinking
combing
cutting
drying
fixing
washing
beautifying
dressing
Verb
▲
Present participle for mix by pressing
kneading
squeezing
forming
working
blending
twisting
crushing
manipulating
massaging
moulding
UK
pounding
pressing
pummelling
UK
pummeling
wringing
malaxating
mixing
rubbing
stroking
aerating
altering
amalgamating
molding
US
plying
pushing
Verb
▲
Present participle for to arrange systematically
organising
UK
organizing
US
arranging
classifying
codifying
grouping
marshalling
UK
marshaling
US
ordering
systematising
UK
systematizing
US
cataloguing
UK
compiling
sorting
tabulating
assembling
cataloging
US
categorising
UK
categorizing
US
listing
standardising
UK
standardizing
US
structuring
arraying
constituting
disposing
filing
indexing
prioritising
UK
prioritizing
US
regulating
systemizing
collocating
methodizing
molding
US
moulding
UK
pigeonholing
ranging
regimenting
adapting
composing
consolidating
controlling
correlating
fitting
formulating
inventorying
tailoring
triaging
adjusting
combining
constructing
curating
fashioning
fixing
harmonising
UK
harmonizing
US
settling
straightening
drawing up
laying out
putting in order
putting straight
sorting out
lining up
straightening out
knocking into shape
licking into shape
whipping into shape
Verb
▲
Present participle for to trim the fingernails
manicuring
cropping
filing
paring
trimming
clipping
cutting
pruning
shearing
snipping
lopping
pollarding
bobbing
nipping
lopping off
cutting back
shaving
shortening
docking
polling
mowing
neatening
skiving
evening up
curtailing
cutting off
cutting short
slashing
lowering
tidying up
cutting shorter
truncating
reducing
thinning
contracting
cutting down
chopping
removing
abbreviating
condensing
paring down
chopping off
decreasing
lessening
shrinking
hacking off
diminishing
taking off
detaching
abridging
downsizing
severing
compressing
boiling down
eliding
syncopating
snipping off
topping
limiting
restricting
nipping off
hacking
barbering
hewing
fleecing
slicing
abstracting
telescoping
epitomizing
US
narrowing
shaving off
trimming off
epitomising
UK
concentrating
separating
stripping
curbing
summarizing
US
detruncating
amputating
minimizing
US
gashing
moderating
dropping
retrenching
incising
constricting
skimming
minimising
UK
synopsizing
axing
making shorter
digesting
slimming down
clipping off
whittling down
knocking off
summarising
UK
bringing down
breaking off
putting in a nutshell
styling
sawing
excising
dissevering
foreshortening
grooming
coppicing
decapitating
slimming
slicing off
scything
reaming
gutting
razoring
creaming
stopping short
deflating
taking out
cutting out
removing from
thinning out
rounding down
downgrading
making bare
pinching back
nicking
slitting
wasting away
tonsuring
snicking
notching
shedding
trimming down
disengaging
sickling
shredding
tightening
filing off
scraping off
outlining
summing up
encapsulating
consolidating
marking down
peeling
skinning
putting down
getting rid of
reducing greatly
summating
recapping
cutting into a bob
bluing pencil
flaying
easing
cutting into
scraping
excoriating
tapering
restraining
decorticating
carving
minifying
compiling
getting to the meat
giving main points
running down
running through
cramping
inhibiting
controlling
halting
scalping
tempering
mitigating
repressing
rationing
stripping off
peeling off
rolling back
scaling down
reining in
paring off
tightening up
cutting down on
fragmenting
reining back
holding back
dialing down
putting the brakes on
putting a restriction on
putting a limit on
dwindling
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
excerpting
whittling
breaking
cracking
splintering
flaking
crumbling
splitting
slivering
taking up
getting shorter
cutting to the bone
turning up
hackling
chipping
blemishing
spalling
cutting away
cracking off
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to smooth or level out by rubbing or applying friction
filing
rasping
rubbing
scraping
grinding
abrading
sanding
buffing
chafing
grating
polishing
smoothing
sandpapering
eroding
honing
razing
burnishing
furbishing
refining
finishing
leveling
US
levelling
UK
rubbing down
Verb
▲
Present participle for to decorate or make more attractive
doing
decorating
adorning
embellishing
ornamenting
styling
trimming
arraying
beautifying
bedecking
bedizening
blazoning
caparisoning
coloring
US
colouring
UK
decking
draping
dressing
emblazing
embossing
enriching
fancifying
festooning
furnishing
garnishing
gracing
painting
papering
adapting
furbishing
renovating
tailoring
wallpapering
dolling up
doing up
fancying up
gussying up
prettying up
decking out
tarting up
tricking out
Verb
▲
Present participle for to line or pack with soft material
padding
filling
lining
packing
stuffing
cushioning
wadding
protecting
upholstering
covering
lagging
filling out
Verb
▲
Present participle for to tidy something up by cutting away irregular or unwanted parts
trimming
tidying
neatening
grooming
sprucing up
tidying up
straightening out
straightening up
redding out
redding up
Verb
▲
Present participle for to alter something from its true state, typically to deceive
bending
distorting
twisting
perverting
warping
misrepresenting
falsifying
garbling
misstating
colouring
UK
coloring
US
slanting
misinterpreting
fudging
manipulating
cooking
biasing
US
biassing
UK
misrelating
influencing
molding
US
moulding
UK
Noun
▲
The action of forming or process of being formed
formation
origination
development
emergence
evolution
genesis
generation
crystallisation
UK
crystallization
US
embodiment
growth
induction
materialisation
UK
materialization
US
molding
US
moulding
UK
realisation
UK
realization
US
synthesis
coming into being
inception
birth
creation
engendering
propagation
formulation
invention
drafting
materializing
US
gestation
materialising
UK
Noun
▲
Something manufactured
fabrication
manufacture
production
construction
assembly
building
creation
erection
making
contriving
fashioning
forging
forming
modeling
US
modelling
UK
assemblage
elevation
raising
product
putting together
putting up
setting up
formation
invention
origination
devising
formulation
manufacturing
composition
moulding
UK
molding
US
compilation
development
constructing
conception
fabricating
inception
imagination
genesis
hatching
laying down
producing
creating
mass production
framing
writing
authoring
fancying
planning
causation
occasioning
performing
constituting
designing
concoction
making up
thinking up
joining
connecting
connection
building up
welding
collection
adjustment
attachment
piecing together
fitting together
generation
design
institution
erecting
establishment
constitution
foundation
initiation
nativity
nascency
inauguration
founding
organization
US
organisation
UK
launch
starting
start
establishing
getting going
engendering
installation
introduction
instituting
reproduction
mass-production
produce
spawning
casting
finding
innovation
instigation
engineering
planting
contrivance
pioneering
provision
preparation
discovery
institute
launching
endowment
initiating
flotation
settlement
originating
induction
enactment
set-up
bringing about
conglomeration
complex
assembling
tooling
finishing
composing
completion
accomplishment
preparing
doing
setting-up
widening
thickening
unravelling
UK
rendering
generativity
site
causing
prefabrication
structure
unraveling
US
yielding
direction
processing
interpretation
triggering
kindling
prompting
inspiration
masterminding
derivation
arrangement
bearing
beginning
drawing up
blossoming
architecture
format
figuration
commencement
output
authorship
breakthrough
turning out
find
advance
procreation
actuation
leap
activation
headway
putting in motion
getting under way
getting off the ground
setting in motion
breeding
proliferation
advancement
coinage
release
device
discovering
conclusion
step forward
quantum leap
leap forward
lucky strike
more ❯
Noun
▲
The craft of making statues
statuary
sculpture
sculpting
carving
chiselling
UK
chiseling
US
molding
US
moulding
UK
sculping
casting
engraving
forming
hewing
modelling
UK
modeling
US
slicing
etching
fashioning
cutting
making
creating
illustration
pictorialization
drawing
depiction
abstraction
symbolization
simulation
portrayal
representation
design
imitation
sketching
painting
fine art
art
graphic arts
beaux arts
arts
ceramics
photography
craft
woodwork
visual arts
woodcarving
more ❯
Noun
▲
A slight alteration or modification
adjustment
alteration
change
modification
adaptation
conversion
fixing
modifying
regulating
regulation
remodeling
US
remodelling
UK
converting
readjustment
rearrangement
refinement
repair
variation
amendment
arrangement
correcting
correction
customisation
UK
customization
US
mending
reconstruction
refining
reshaping
restyling
revamping
setting
tailoring
transformation
amending
improvement
overhaul
overhauling
rectifying
tuning
jiggering
rectification
redress
tweaking
twiddling
balancing
fitting
organisation
UK
organization
US
organising
UK
organizing
US
repairing
fine-tuning
patching up
revision
reformation
shift
switch
mutation
reworking
recasting
transition
makeover
difference
transmutation
transfiguration
changeover
modulation
metamorphosis
development
turn
transmogrification
variance
renovation
about-face
revolution
tempering
translation
rebuilding
refashioning
innovation
permutation
diversification
redoing
turnover
addition
remoulding
UK
revamp
reparation
reversal
remolding
US
emendation
vicissitude
remaking
advance
amelioration
evolution
move
break
reorganization
US
editing
transubstantiation
renewal
reorganisation
UK
reordering
novelty
swing
sea change
renewing
compression
diversity
variety
contraction
surrogate
distortion
revise
betterment
restoration
deviation
changing
review
reform
remedy
realignment
rehabilitation
servicing
revitalization
refurbishing
refurbishment
tweak
flip-flop
redevelopment
reshuffling
refurb
fixing up
rewriting
redrafting
passage
rephrasing
patch-up
fluctuation
swap
refitting
customizing
US
redraft
flux
veering
qualification
righting
upheaval
updating
course
customising
UK
revisal
revaluation
rejigging
transfer
adjusting
altering
resolution
improving
repairs
mid-course correction
substitution
crossover
about-turn
sorting out
putting to rights
specialisation
UK
regeneration
U-turn
newfangledness
standardization
US
innovativeness
specialization
US
calibration
standardisation
UK
acclimation
restriction
progression
restructuring
redesigning
reassessment
adoption
moderation
adaption
reorganizing
US
remake
reorienting
gradation
progress
growth
reorientation
synchronisation
UK
synchronization
US
jump
metastasis
leap
reorganising
UK
redaction
perfection
polish
recension
updation
rescript
reediting
turning point
passing
crossing
transit
departure
reappraisal
copy-editing
advancement
melioration
interchange
replacement
patching
ameliorating
enhancement
path
procession
operation
metanoia
process
motion
cross
trend
bettering
refreshing
corrective action
minor adjustment
recovery
shifting
vacillation
turnaround
redirection
change of direction
reviving
enhancing
renovating
diversion
redefinition
digression
movement
edit
putting right
setting right
darning
hemming
rewording
rewrite
retraction
oscillation
stirring
wavering
rowback
drift
rereading
reexamination
indemnification
revising
update
freshening
helping
sewing
stitching
yaw
deflection
bend
stir
bias
repositioning
direction
go over
ironing out
clearing up
alterations
tendency
tack
finish
switches
shifts
reformations
amendments
transitions
revisions
permutations
advances
metamorphoses
refinements
makeovers
rearrangements
remodelings
corrections
rejiggings
reorganizations
US
changes
remakings
turns
reorganisations
UK
remoldings
sea changes
transubstantiations
readjustments
realignments
improvements
exchange
accommodation
switch-over
freshness
newness
turning
originality
transposition
rise
pivot
shake-up
uniqueness
metasis
evolving
maturation
evolvement
rehab
origination
radical change
recentness
maturing
modernization
redistribution
regrouping
mutability
rethink
rationalization
US
growing
alternation
fruition
reshuffle
rebirth
maturity
rationalisation
UK
transfigurement
revolutionizing
US
flowering
ripening
shakedown
unconventionality
coming-of-age
morph
unfamiliarity
buildup
revolutionising
UK
turning around
expansion
furtherance
modernity
strangeness
surprise
weird
crazy
sport
oddity
creation
oddball
original
revolutionary change
enlargement
shift of emphasis
break with tradition
shake up
dernier cri
newfangled contraption
last word
beautification
cosmetic treatment
varying
variability
reforming
reassembling
rotation
transferal
manipulation
relocation
redecoration
rapid transition
transspecific evolution
drastic
shakeout
rendering
repetition
divergence
nuance
refurnishing
redesign
natural process
volte-face
unrest
modernism
vagary
quantum jump
major change
marked transformation
total change
sudden change
quantum leap
roaming
wandering
reverse
order
disposition
presentation
sorting
grouping
combination
downturn
switchover
handover
creativeness
unusualness
creativity
imaginativeness
polishing
clarification
fall
modernness
complete change
break with the past
selection
reconstitution
version
perm
alternative
repeated rotation
rarity
subediting
cutover
new thing
re-examination
macroevolution
relegation
unfolding
bowdlerization
expurgation
censoring
censorship
new measures
new methods
new devices
extension
transference
assignment
blossoming
emergence
reconsideration
re-evaluation
change of fortune
reallocation
unraveling
US
burgeoning
elaboration
flourishing
conferral
conveyance
allocation
advancing
blooming
retrospect
unrolling
unravelling
UK
difference of emphasis
cession
bestowal
recapitulation
working out
capability
ability
abdication
fresh look
summary
another look
boost
increase
second look
adulthood
ontogenesis
ontogeny
surge
increment
a fresh look
upgrade
augmentation
promotion
breakthrough
gain
upswing
rally
upgrading
elevation
enrichment
forwarding
heightening
embellishment
raising
face-lift
meliorism
upbeat
cultivation
civilisation
UK
preferment
step up
civilization
US
upturn
change for the better
kaizen
reclamation
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Capable of forming something
formative
controlling
influential
determinative
decisive
determining
guiding
important
molding
US
moulding
UK
developmental
forming
significant
key
defining
critical
crucial
deciding
conclusive
settling
definitive
principal
major
responsible
causal
evaluative
prime
chief
pivotal
final
paramount
certain
essential
momentous
consequential
absolute
weighty
far-reaching
ultimate
vital
central
big
cardinal
historic
overriding
acute
serious
fateful
primary
life-and-death
main
of great consequence
grave
urgent
focal
imperative
clear
capital
all-important
high-priority
definite
leading
dominant
necessary
categorical
last
settled
supreme
predominant
fundamental
foremost
decided
portentous
premier
top
preeminent
pressing
epoch-making
meaningful
dire
heavy
grand
ruling
earth-shattering
pre-eminent
burning
closing
unlucky
positive
authoritative
clinching
first
determined
concluding
core
intrinsic
highest
apocalyptic
fatal
integral
uppermost
large
prevailing
overruling
primal
preponderant
forceful
outstanding
determinate
great
master
top-priority
prevalent
substantial
considerable
worthwhile
compelling
eventful
material
ponderous
earth-shaking
world-shaking
world-shattering
indispensable
monumental
especial
heavy-duty
large-scale
exceptional
number one
telling
first and foremost
number-one
numero uno
now or never
life-or-death
of great moment
vitally important
official
irrevocable
foundational
constructive
seminal
creative
foreordained
inevitable
predestined
doomed
destined
sovereign
determinant
emphatic
unequivocal
imperious
trenchant
overbearing
arch
prior
sovran
overmastering
greatest
of vital importance
extremely important
life-saving
life or death
incisive
remarkable
of prime importance
intervening
of greatest importance
of supreme importance
superseding
of greatest significance
crisp
peremptory
litmus test
sensational
prodigious
extensive
earnest
unmissable
special
page-one
unforgettable
tremendous
conspicuous
testing
climacteric
trying
searching
of great import
of moment
front-page
newsworthy
of import
impressive
psychological
ill-fated
direful
doomful
of great importance
inauspicious
ominous
resultful
regnant
dominating
binding
irreversible
desperate
clamorous
pertinent
fixed
insistent
showdown
touchy
climatic
sweeping
profound
appreciable
notable
severe
pronounced
sizable
noteworthy
intense
exigent
imposing
hanging by thread
on thin ice
touch-and-go
established
pointed
prominent
impactful
immediate
heavyweight
striking
instrumental
mighty
powerful
almighty
salient
express
specified
top-level
overshadowing
high-level
big-time
of concern
life and death
life-changing
major-league
high-profile
of note
dangerous
grievous
of consequence
big-league
big league
defined
precise
quantified
explicit
known
limited
firm
frozen
set
hard
flat
inexpugnable
hard-and-fast
distinct
stable
intent
quintessential
requisite
climactic
prerequisite
needed
required
mandatory
radical
much needed
very important
of the utmost importance
of the essence
must-have
most influential
most important
most prominent
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