leafing

Speech parts

1. leafing - Noun

2. leafing - Verb

Meaning

of Leaf

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

riffle paging greening thumb flick riff foliation petal frond browsing sheeting papering thumbing vernation

Antonyms

eye omit look away turn from avert one's gaze dive deep
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Hypernyms

development growth growing maturation ontogeny ontogenesis

Phrases with the word

tea-leafing

Anagrams

finagle faeling Laifeng

Examples

A little stallion gallops across the leafing fingers- Black the gate leaps open, I sing; How did we live here? Paul Celan

Light fills the air, wind is aglow, drink of it, breathe of it, make leafing. Rainfall sows itself, it grows down through soil to the secret places where stones abide; it brings the strength of them up rootward. Lie still, molder away, then be again grass. Poul Anderson

I was leafing through a magazine where there was a before-and-after picture of a woman who went from a size 5 to a size 3 by liposuction. Was she serious I've cooked bigger turkeys than her before picture. Erma Bombeck

I’d swapped apartments with a friend and as I was leafing through her stack of new baking books, I became hopelessly smitten with one in particular: Baked: New Frontiers in Baking. Source: Internet

Just leafing through the book right after it came in the mail, I was astounded at the number of recipes that I had never seen before, and I instantly started planning meals around several truly delicious sounding curries. Source: Internet

How many of us spend evenings leafing through our magazines or cookbooks, searching for the recipe to inspire us? Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

leafiest leafily leafiness Leafland leafless leafless parasitic plant