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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 adapt or design for a particular purpose or person
Present participle for to put together using parts or materials
Present participle for to control or determine the process or direction of
Present participle for to strategically plan a course of action
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 develop or bring about the existence of (something)
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 act of fabricating or manufacturing something
The state or fact of forming or coming into being
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
working
constructing
designing
building
hammering
manufacturing
producing
chipping
developing
engraving
crafting
styling
incising
beating
configuring
arranging
composing
devising
turning out
putting together
plying
founding
axing
stamping
pounding
dressing
sculping
rough-hewing
malleating
processing
inventing
etching
slashing
drawing
inscribing
setting
erecting
aligning
structuring
planning
tooling
formatting
beating into shape
setting up
beating out
flattening
scoring
turning
thumbing
fingering
confecting
throwing
originating
roughcasting
ornamenting
decorating
coining
pruning
striking
stroking
holding
portraying
depicting
knocking together
organizing
US
chasing
embellishing
describing
evolving
die-casting
rendering
laying out
organising
UK
hacking
handling
graving
slicing
contriving
concocting
paring
dissecting
dividing
sundering
stippling
indenting
scribing
cleaving
dissevering
presenting
completing
scheming
finishing
outlining
perfecting
tracing
fixing
projecting
plotting
consummating
cutting in slices
mixing
blending
squeezing
tending
laboring
US
labouring
UK
knocking off
cooking up
hammering out
caring for
working on
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
styling
ordering
leading
directing
categorising
UK
patterning
controlling
emulating
decorating
following
copying
imitating
categorizing
US
more ❯
“His inspiring speech would
shape
my future for many years to come.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to adapt or design for a particular purpose or person
tailoring
adapting
adjusting
fashioning
fitting
accommodating
conditioning
acclimatising
UK
acclimatizing
US
suiting
conforming
acclimating
doctoring
editing
reconciling
modifying
attuning
customising
UK
customizing
US
designing
moulding
UK
tuning
altering
molding
US
changing
making
putting
cutting
personalising
UK
personalizing
US
styling
converting
quadrating
trimming
gearing
reshaping
dovetailing
squaring
tailor-making
custom-making
shaping up
custom-building
making to order
cutting to fit
making to measure
transforming
metamorphosing
revising
habituating
remodelling
UK
remodeling
US
tweaking
readjusting
reforming
mutating
varying
transmuting
transfiguring
turning
accustoming
preparing
familiarizing
US
revamping
reworking
fixing
evolving
reconstructing
amending
refashioning
improving
restyling
integrating
assimilating
morphing
acculturating
naturalizing
US
shifting
familiarising
UK
reconditioning
diverging
getting used to
transmogrifying
naturalising
UK
transubstantiating
arranging
seasoning
hardening
redoing
redesigning
reorganizing
US
forming
proportioning
rearranging
refining
acculturing
regulating
settling
rejigging
resolving
overhauling
remaking
sharpening
recasting
domesticating
rebuilding
rectifying
matching
harmonizing
US
harmonising
UK
reorganising
UK
correcting
becoming accustomed
making adjustments to
making alterations to
straightening
getting accustomed
transposing
getting used
merging
progressing
fixing up
fitting in
translating
refitting
becoming seasoned
becoming naturalized
familiarizing with
coming to accept
familiarizing oneself with
coming to terms with
commutating
transiting
materializing
US
deforming
reducing
making over
materialising
UK
learning to live with
patterning
planning
individualizing
US
plotting
priming
qualifying
specifying
differentiating
individualising
UK
bending
processing
tempering
readying
treating
making distinctive
composing
sizing
measuring
disposing
making appropriate for
making fitting to
making appropriate to
making fitting for
complying
corresponding
softening
giving a personal touch to
making improvements to
becoming accustomed to
getting your bearings
making consistent
finding your feet
finding one's way around
putting in place
putting in position
making ready
toughening
blending
following
climatizing
following the crowd
going along to get along
following convention
swimming with the stream
following custom
running with the pack
filing down
following tradition
following beaten path
squaring off
keeping in step
rolling with punches
inuring
becoming inured
renovating
becoming resigned
resigning yourself
renewing
reorienting
revolutionizing
US
jacking up
reordering
remoulding
UK
reorientating
reshuffling
rehashing
retooling
alchemizing
developing
redeveloping
modulating
metamorphosizing
reconstituting
updating
upgrading
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
growing
rendering
setting
becoming
generating
ordering
calibrating
balancing
enhancing
repairing
normalizing
US
redressing
aligning
jiggering
coordinating
organizing
US
tightening
focussing
grading
troubleshooting
sorting
normalising
UK
focusing
twiddling
mending
organising
UK
fine-tuning
tuning up
bringing into line
putting right
setting right
making good
fiddling with
patching up
putting in working order
seeing to
making conform
setting to rights
more ❯
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
molding
US
moulding
UK
building up
bringing about
prefabricating
synthesizing
US
synthesising
UK
developing
sculpturing
constituting
effecting
casting
compiling
establishing
completing
superstructing
accomplishing
crafting
fudging together
jerry-building
hammering out
edifying
reconstructing
carpentering
evolving
founding
compounding
connecting
fitting
running up
welding
sewing
putting out
fixing in position
joining up
arranging
patching up
cooking up
sewing up
designing
processing
preparing
carving
originating
concocting
executing
cobbling
milling
tooling
machining
minting
ordering
rendering
yielding
implementing
spawning
fixing
actualizing
generating
brewing
hatching
mass-producing
knocking off
rustling up
begetting
eking out
knocking out
patching together
whipping out
inventing
rigging up
churning out
configuring
giving structure to
bringing into existence
working
working out
working up
thrashing out
carving out
grinding out
instituting
initiating
devising
mounting
readying
fixing together
putting in place
innovating
pioneering
launching
revolutionizing
US
introducing
authoring
ushering in
kicking off
coming out with
fathering
drawing up
starting
commencing
modernizing
US
issuing
discovering
spearheading
conceiving
catalyzing
US
instigating
bringing into being
giving rise to
beginning
conceiving of
inducting
effectuating
revolutionising
UK
catalysing
UK
bringing to pass
modernising
UK
ringing in
starting out
knocking up
bringing on
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to control or determine the process or direction of
governing
affecting
deciding
controlling
determining
modifying
influencing
altering
swaying
touching
forming
dictating
guiding
conditioning
regulating
ruling
molding
US
moulding
UK
directing
predisposing
underlying
disposing
shepherding
impacting on
acting on
exerting influence on
working on
having an impact on
being a factor in
having an effect on
transforming
changing
biasing
US
biassing
UK
manipulating
striking
impacting
bearing upon
impinging upon
infecting
attacking
hitting
striking at
taking hold of
constraining
forecasting
leading
steering
codetermining
fashioning
working
reshaping
converting
shifting
adjusting
amending
acting upon
jockeying
having a bearing on
interacting with
upsetting
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
telling on
relating
inspiring
shaking up
overcoming
knocking back
emotionally moving
inducing
impinging
regarding
interesting
marking
impressing on
prevailing over
getting to
knocking for six
going to your head
turning someone's head
making an impression on
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
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 strategically plan a course of action
blocking out
planning
outlining
preparing
formulating
plotting
charting
devising
drafting
forming
blueprinting
framing
organising
UK
organizing
US
arranging
mapping
building
contriving
concocting
sketching
engineering
conceiving
scheming
hatching
brewing
masterminding
orchestrating
mapping out
scheming out
strategizing about
working out
planning out
making arrangements
designing
choreographing
projecting
laying out
budgeting
calculating
constructing
creating
fashioning
composing
developing
putting together
crafting
setting up
drawing up
producing
directing
fabricating
casting
strategizing
cooking up
inventing
making
scheduling
readying
coordinating
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
molding
US
adjusting
managing
originating
modelling
UK
modeling
US
forging
moulding
UK
fixing up
roughing out
sketching out
manipulating
setting out
jacking up
making up
thinking up
dreaming up
excogitating
adapting
fitting
negotiating
manufacturing
steering
tailoring
establishing
detailing
finessing
machinating
assembling
conducting
programming
fixing
quarterbacking
marshaling
US
marshalling
UK
determining
setting
deciding
working
drumming up
beginning
settling on
getting ready
making arrangements for
coming up with
starting up
hammering out
intending
proposing
purposing
ordering
planning ahead
balancing
gearing
drawing
writing
evolving
deriving
imagining
envisioning
hewing
exploiting
estimating
delineating
skeletoning
roughing
adumbrating
vamping up
thrashing out
conceiving of
trumping up
fudging together
influencing
controlling
doing
plotting out
tracing out
costing
premeditating
slating
brainstorming
contemplating
accounting
finagling
using
guiding
affecting
forecasting
representing
conspiring
supplying
laying
editing
equipping
making financial arrangements
costing out
predicting
computing
making provisions
wangling
settling
stage-managing
accoutreing
accoutring
furnishing
prepping
perfecting
outfitting
thinking ahead
resolving
building up
fitting out
appointing
working up
smoothing the way
getting up
turning out
anticipating
putting in order
making ready
grooming
endowing
filling in
making provision
tracing
intriguing
chalking out
meditating
thinking out
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
playing upon
turning to one's advantage
using to advantage
fixing to
figuring out
laying in provisions
reckoning on
bargaining for
figuring on
roughing in
lining up
running
rendering
authoring
executing
putting up
diagramming
rigging
carving out
throwing up
conjuring up
comprising
bringing
throwing together
advancing
running up
piecing
translating into
diagraming
compounding
bringing on
administrating
mobilizing
US
constituting
starting
founding
instituting
being responsible for
sorting out
budgeting for
getting off the ground
straightening out
getting going
looking after
dealing with
laying the foundations of
seeing about
getting together
seeing to
timetabling
mounting
concerting
taking care of
licking into shape
mobilising
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
programming
brainwashing
counseling
US
counselling
UK
briefing
initiating
lecturing
illuminating
habituating
explaining
raising
acquainting
giving lessons
familiarizing
US
getting ready
propagandizing
US
demonstrating
familiarising
UK
accustoming
propagandising
UK
walking through
proselytizing
US
tailoring
working over
persuading
warming up
imbuing
getting into shape
implanting
breaking
tending
socializing
US
influencing
catechizing
proselytising
UK
socialising
UK
prepping
parenting
familiarizing with
hypnotizing
US
working out
giving pointers
giving hints
giving information to
giving someone tips
working
giving instruction
looking after
illustrating
compelling
manipulating
taking care of
telling
communicating
empowering
planting
ordering
illuming
convincing
making suitable
helping
illumining
inspiring
introducing
shepherding
steering
housetraining
housebreaking
dinning something into
adapting
cluing
clueing
setting
letting in on
hypnotising
UK
preaching
mothering
clarifying
organizing
US
describing
presenting
laying it out for
orientating
clueing in
filling in
bracing
nursing
giving advice to
tuning up
nourishing
giving counsel to
toilet training
giving counselling to
breaking down
cherishing
getting set
giving direction to
giving the facts
expounding
acquainting with
making conversant with
making suggestions to
making recommendations to
giving instructions
organising
UK
providing for
setting up
putting in the picture
providing
attending to
regimenting
arming
sparring
making experienced
mainstreaming
showing the way
civilizing
US
maturing
shadowboxing
homeschooling
civilising
UK
making familiar with
imparting
pointing out
explicating
watching over
learning
notifying
supervising
pounding into
opening eyes
polishing up
equipping with
radicalizing
US
shaping up
getting used to
toughening up
loosening up
aiding
teaching school
making clear
bolstering
backing
nursling
teaching information
opening my eyes
giving a grounding in
apprising
sponsoring
basing
radicalising
UK
fanaticizing
extremizing
laboring
US
straining
labouring
UK
orienting
endowing
improving mind
clearing
giving someone an idea
hipping
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
coaching in
tutoring in
teaching about
priming in
schooling in
drilling in
instructing in
training in
grounding in
making aware of
hanging
drilling into
impressing upon
hammering into
catching up
exemplifying
informing about
keeping posted
putting through grind
putting through mill
cautioning
displaying
fixing
filling in on
exhibiting
giving counsel
giving advice
protecting
cluing up on
cluing in on
poising
giving guidance
giving counselling
giving direction
arranging
planning
giving directions
genning up on
offering suggestions
offering opinions
making recommendations
laying
fortifying
anticipating
giving the gen about
putting in the picture about
giving the low-down on
forearming
allowing
ostending
fitting out
making up
arming oneself
putting together
making plans for
paving the way
laying out
giving an idea of
adjusting
making provision
showing how something is done
giving a demonstration of
showing how something works
taking measures
forearming oneself
making arrangements
making plans
making preparations
taking precautions
making provision for
laying the groundwork
guarding
taking steps
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 develop or bring about the existence of (something)
materialising
UK
materializing
US
effecting
creating
establishing
starting
producing
forming
initiating
introducing
commencing
instituting
making
launching
constituting
actualizing
executing
generating
founding
instigating
inaugurating
building
achieving
enacting
beginning
developing
accomplishing
organising
UK
organizing
US
effectuating
constructing
designing
assembling
crafting
engineering
originating
completing
doing
affecting
catalysing
UK
catalyzing
US
composing
fashioning
forging
installing
machinating
realising
UK
realizing
US
setting
fulfilling
authoring
casting
erecting
fabricating
piecing
rendering
rigging
securing
germinating
moulding
UK
molding
US
engendering
bringing about
setting up
setting down
setting in motion
giving rise to
putting in motion
bringing into being
bringing into existence
bringing to pass
knocking together
knocking up
putting in place
bringing off
carrying through
bringing to fruition
making happen
making a reality
embarking on
exercising
commissioning
authorizing
US
legislating
ordaining
empowering
passing
inducting
pioneering
placing
investing
designating
chartering
innovating
delegating
decreeing
planting
deputing
ordering
drafting
authorising
UK
laying down
getting going
inventing
starting up
opening up
opening
laying the foundations of
devising
contriving
formulating
incorporating
putting together
starting off
discovering
coming up with
kicking off
conceiving
concocting
coining
kick-starting
evolving
floating
basing
masterminding
ushering in
spawning
giving birth to
leading
crystallizing
US
transpiring
structuring
coming out with
conceiving of
fathering
imagining
crystallising
UK
improvising
thinking up
begetting
dreaming up
sparking
patenting
parenting
causing
hatching
framing
spearheading
preparing
manufacturing
trailblazing
blazing
breaking new ground
laying the groundwork for
showing the way on
making the first move
taking the initiative in
blazing a trail
leading the way
preparing the way for
going out in front
taking the lead in
exploring
mapping out
colonizing
US
leading the way for
taking the lead
laying the groundwork on
taking the lead on
setting the ball rolling
colonising
UK
showing the way
pushing the envelope
minting
fangling
bearing
knocking off
tossing off
turning out
more ❯
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
chopping
cutting down
abbreviating
condensing
removing
decreasing
paring down
lessening
shrinking
diminishing
downsizing
chopping off
hacking off
taking off
detaching
abridging
compressing
severing
eliding
boiling down
syncopating
telescoping
snipping off
topping
limiting
restricting
nipping off
hacking
barbering
hewing
fleecing
slicing
abstracting
minimizing
US
retrenching
epitomizing
US
minimising
UK
making shorter
narrowing
shaving off
trimming off
epitomising
UK
concentrating
separating
stripping
curbing
summarizing
US
detruncating
dwindling
amputating
gashing
moderating
dropping
excerpting
incising
constricting
skimming
getting shorter
synopsizing
axing
taking up
digesting
slimming down
cutting to the bone
clipping off
turning up
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
wasting away
tonsuring
shedding
trimming down
disengaging
sickling
tightening
nicking
slitting
snicking
notching
filing off
scraping off
outlining
summing up
encapsulating
consolidating
shredding
snippeting
snippetting
marking down
peeling
skinning
putting down
getting rid of
reducing greatly
summating
recapping
cutting into a bob
bluing pencil
flaying
easing
scraping
excoriating
tapering
restraining
decorticating
cutting into
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
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
whittling
breaking
cracking
splintering
flaking
crumbling
splitting
slivering
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 act of fabricating or manufacturing something
fabrication
construction
production
building
creation
assembly
manufacture
making
erection
forming
forging
invention
fashioning
modeling
US
modelling
UK
raising
contriving
elevation
assemblage
putting together
setting up
putting up
formation
origination
devising
formulation
manufacturing
composition
moulding
UK
molding
US
development
constructing
conception
fabricating
inception
imagination
genesis
hatching
laying down
producing
creating
mass production
framing
writing
compilation
authoring
fancying
planning
causation
occasioning
performing
constituting
designing
concoction
making up
thinking up
building up
generation
design
institution
erecting
establishment
constitution
foundation
initiation
nativity
nascency
engineering
structure
produce
casting
architecture
engendering
mass-production
turning out
build
prefabrication
output
processing
construct
rendering
industry
spawning
causing
arrangement
setting-up
triggering
kindling
prompting
inspiration
preparation
yielding
direction
format
figuration
fitting together
bearing
provision
reproduction
assembling
tooling
finishing
composing
completion
preparing
doing
accomplishment
more ❯
Noun
▲
The state or fact of forming or coming into being
genesis
origination
formation
creation
development
generation
inception
formulation
invention
emergence
evolution
birth
engendering
propagation
arising
coming into being
synthesis
materialization
US
moulding
UK
realization
US
induction
crystallization
US
growth
embodiment
materialisation
UK
crystallisation
UK
molding
US
realisation
UK
dawn
beginning
launch
commencement
source
conception
dawning
starting point
start
introduction
origin
nascence
incipience
nascency
incipiency
root
alpha
baseline
innovation
discovery
occurrence
embryo
germ
basis
birthplace
fount
fountainhead
rise
spring
mainspring
seeds
cradle
infancy
roots
seed
antecedent
fountain
principle
egg
heart
starting
commencing
cause
well
font
stem
well spring
fons et origo
outset
onset
kickoff
opening
threshold
morning
provenience
provenance
origins
git-go
get-go
day one
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
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
shift
reformation
switch
mutation
transition
reworking
changeover
makeover
transmutation
recasting
transfiguration
difference
development
metamorphosis
transmogrification
modulation
turn
variance
renovation
about-face
revolution
tempering
translation
rebuilding
refashioning
innovation
permutation
diversification
redoing
turnover
evolution
addition
revamp
remoulding
UK
reparation
reversal
remaking
renewal
vicissitude
advance
remolding
US
amelioration
move
emendation
editing
break
sea change
reorganization
US
transubstantiation
reordering
novelty
reorganisation
UK
swing
renewing
compression
diversity
variety
contraction
surrogate
distortion
betterment
revise
restoration
deviation
calibration
changing
review
standardization
US
remedy
reform
realignment
rehabilitation
servicing
standardisation
UK
revitalization
refurbishing
refurbishment
tweak
flip-flop
transit
redevelopment
reshuffling
refurb
fixing up
rewriting
redrafting
passage
rephrasing
patch-up
fluctuation
swap
redraft
customizing
US
flux
veering
upheaval
updating
course
customising
UK
revaluation
refitting
revisal
rejigging
righting
transfer
qualification
resolution
improving
repairs
mid-course correction
substitution
adjusting
altering
crossover
about-turn
sorting out
putting to rights
specialisation
UK
regeneration
U-turn
newfangledness
innovativeness
specialization
US
acclimation
progression
restructuring
redesigning
reassessment
moderation
restriction
reorganizing
US
remake
reorienting
gradation
progress
growth
osmosis
reorientation
synchronisation
UK
synchronization
US
jump
metastasis
leap
adaption
reorganising
UK
redaction
perfection
polish
recension
updation
rescript
reediting
turning point
passing
crossing
departure
reappraisal
copy-editing
advancement
melioration
interchange
coordination
replacement
patching
ameliorating
enhancement
path
procession
operation
metanoia
process
motion
cross
trend
bettering
refreshing
alignment
corrective action
minor adjustment
recovery
shifting
vacillation
turnaround
redirection
change of direction
reviving
enhancing
renovating
diversion
redefinition
straightening up
evening up
digression
movement
edit
darning
hemming
rewording
rewrite
retraction
oscillation
stirring
wavering
rowback
reexamination
revising
drift
putting right
update
freshening
helping
sewing
stitching
clearing up
yaw
deflection
bend
stir
bias
repositioning
direction
go over
setting right
alterations
ironing out
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
originality
turning
transposition
uniqueness
pivot
shake-up
metasis
evolving
maturation
rise
evolvement
recentness
radical change
modernization
redistribution
regrouping
maturing
mutability
rethink
rationalization
US
rebrand
alternation
reshuffle
growing
rebirth
unconventionality
fruition
rationalisation
UK
transfigurement
revolutionizing
US
unfamiliarity
maturity
flowering
shakedown
ripening
origination
morph
modernity
coming-of-age
revolutionising
UK
turning around
strangeness
crazy
revolutionary change
shift of emphasis
break with tradition
shake up
dernier cri
last word
varying
variability
rotation
transferal
manipulation
relocation
redecoration
reassembling
transspecific evolution
drastic
shakeout
rendering
repetition
rehab
divergence
nuance
refurnishing
redesign
natural process
volte-face
cutover
unrest
unusualness
vagary
modernism
quantum jump
major change
marked transformation
total change
sudden change
quantum leap
creativity
roaming
wandering
reverse
imaginativeness
rapid transition
order
disposition
presentation
sorting
grouping
combination
creativeness
downturn
switchover
polishing
clarification
fall
modernness
handover
engineering
complete change
break with the past
reconstitution
version
perm
alternative
repeated rotation
expansion
rarity
subediting
re-examination
macroevolution
unfolding
bowdlerization
expurgation
censoring
censorship
relegation
extension
new measures
new methods
new devices
blossoming
emergence
reconsideration
re-evaluation
change of fortune
transference
assignment
unraveling
US
burgeoning
elaboration
flourishing
buildup
furtherance
advancing
blooming
retrospect
reallocation
juggling
conferral
conveyance
allocation
unrolling
unravelling
UK
enlargement
difference of emphasis
recapitulation
cession
bestowal
working out
fresh look
summary
another look
abdication
referral
second look
capability
ability
upgrade
a fresh look
adulthood
ontogenesis
ontogeny
weird
sport
oddity
creation
surprise
oddball
original
breakthrough
upswing
rally
face-lift
life cycle
meliorism
preferment
upturn
change for the better
kaizen
reclamation
newfangled contraption
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
absolute
clear
ultimate
definite
categorical
last
settled
decided
closing
positive
authoritative
clinching
determined
concluding
determinate
foundational
seminal
constructive
creative
official
irrevocable
necessary
determinant
emphatic
unequivocal
momentous
forceful
vital
imperious
fateful
imperative
trenchant
incisive
peremptory
crisp
fatal
irreversible
binding
litmus test
fixed
established
express
specified
defined
precise
quantified
explicit
known
limited
firm
hard-and-fast
frozen
distinct
flat
hard
set
inexpugnable
stable
intent
most influential
more ❯
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