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Definition: Caressing |
CaressingAdjective1. Showing love; "caressive words". Noun1. Affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "caressing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: CaressingSynonyms: caressive (adj), cuddling (n), fondling (n), hugging (n), kissing (n), necking (n), petting (n), smooching (n), snuggling (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Endearment | Noun: endearment, caress; blandishment, blandiment; _panchement, fondling, billing and cooing, dalliance, necking, petting, sporting, sparking, hanky-panky; caressing. |
Adjective: caressing; Verb: " sighing like furnace "; love-sick, spoony. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Caressing |
| English words defined with "caressing": blarney ♦ cajole, caressingly, coax ♦ Embracive ♦ inveigle ♦ palaver ♦ sweet-talk ♦ wheedle. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "caressing": Embracive. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I like to be, yeah, caressing you gentle (I've Got Love On My Mind; performing artist: NATALIE COLE; writing credit: Chuck Jackson & Marvin Yancy) Kissing my lips, caressing my skin (I Could Fall in Love; performing artist: Selena) Ooh, some kinda touch caressing my face (Oops (Oh My); performing artist: Tweet) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cats: Caressing the Tiger (1991) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Ashen; balmy; bland; caressing; comfortable; cool; cushy; delicate; diffuse; dim; dimmed; dulcet; dull; dusky; faint; gentle; gravy; hazy; lenient; light; low; low-key; mellifluous; mellow; melodious; mild; misty; murmured; muted; pale; pallid; pastel; pl. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She stood on one foot, caressing the back of her leg with a bare instep |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Caressing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 87.34% of the time. "Caressing" is used about 158 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 87.34% | 138 | 27,024 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10.76% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.9% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 158 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
breast caressing | 5 |
body caressing | 3 |
ass caressing | 3 |
caressing pussy | 2 |
caressing fondling | 2 |
caressing woman | 2 |
caressing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "caressing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ledhatues (fond), i përkëdhelur (pet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гальовен (fond), галещ, милващ, помилване (amnesty, fondling, free pardon, oblivion, pardon, reprieve, stroking). (various references) | |
Chinese | 爱抚 (Caress, Caressed). (various references) | |
Czech | mazlící. (various references) | |
Dutch | aanhalig (affectionate, cuddlesome, cuddly). (various references) | |
Esperanto | karesema (affectionate, cuddlesome, cuddly). (various references) | |
French | caressant, tendre. (various references) | |
Frisian | oansjitsk (affectionate, cuddlesome, cuddly). (various references) | |
German | liebkosend (fondling, hugging, snugglind). (various references) | |
Greek | χαϊδευτικόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לטוף (fondling, petting), לטפ י (embracing, fondling), חבוק (attached, clasp, embrace, embraced, embracing, hug, hugging), "תחבקות (embracing, hugging), 'פוף (embracing, hugging). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hízelkedõ. (various references) | |
Korean | 무 (Caress). (various references) | |
Manx | nuiddragh (caress, cuddle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aressingcay.(various references) | |
Russian | ласкательный. (various references) | |
Scottish | t ladh (alluring, enticing, hushing), sodan (expression of gladness at seeing or, joy), brìodal (courting, lovers' language), beadradh (fondling). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji miluje. (various references) | |
Spanish | zalamero (affectionate, bootlicker, cuddlesome, cuddly, flattering, greasy, oily, smooth, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smoothie, suave, unctuous), mimoso (affectionate, cuddlesome, cuddly). (various references) | |
Swedish | smekande (dulcet, gentle). (various references) | |
Turkish | sevecen (affectionate, benign, benignant, compassionate, endearing, heartthrob, sisterly, tender), okşama (caress, Pat, patting, stroke), şefkâtli (affectionate, caring, charitable, compassionate, endearing, loving, samaritan, tender, tender-hearted). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vuốt ve (strokingly), mơn trớn (strokingly), âu yếm. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "caressing": caressingly. (additional references) | |
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"Caressing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cabestaing, caressant, carressing, crassing, karozzin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "caressing" (pronounced kere"sing) |
| 4 | -e" s i ng | acquiescing, addressing, assessing, blessing, coalescing, compressing, confessing, depressing, digressing, distressing, dressing, expressing, guessing, impressing, messing, obsessing, oppressing, possessing, pressing, professing, progressing, reassessing, recessing, redressing, repressing, stressing, suppressing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | annexing, announcing, accessing, advancing, affixing, amassing, balancing, basing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, condensing, conferencing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, diagnosing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pricing, processing, producing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, rebalancing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, subleasing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: arcsines, arsenics, assigner, caginess, creasing, raciness, reassign, sacrings, seringas. | |
-2 letters: ancress, anergic, arcsine, arsenic, arsines, carnies, caseins, caserns, casings, ceasing, cessing, cringes, earings, erasing, gainers, gassier, incages, incases, ingress, racings, reagins, regains, reginas, resigns, sacring, sangers, scaring, searing, seringa, signers, singers. | |
-3 letters: angers, anises, arcing, arisen, arises, arsine, assign, cagers, cagier, cairns, caners. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: cragginess, crevassing, surceasing. | |
+2 letters: caressingly, gracileness, graphicness, scatterings, sergeancies. | |
+3 letters: cragginesses, fricasseeing, graciousness, overcastings, secularising. | |
+4 letters: accessorising, accessorizing, astringencies, cheeseparings, congressional, cosignatories, gastrocnemius, gracilenesses, graphicnesses, greenbackisms, reclassifying, resuscitating, safecrackings, scenographies, superagencies. | |
+5 letters: carcinogeneses, carcinogenesis, clearinghouses, glucuronidases, graciousnesses, intransigences, laryngoscopies, letterspacings, merchandisings, prognosticates, scintigraphies, serodiagnostic, ungraciousness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Sounds 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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