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kissing
| Main Entry: |
kissing
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | osculation |
| Synonyms: | bussing, caressing, embracing, love-making, making out, necking, parking, petting, smooching, spooning, sucking face |
| Main Entry: | foreplay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fondling |
| Synonyms: | action*, caress, cuddling, heavy petting, kissing, lovemaking, making out, necking, oral sex, petting, sex, sexual activity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lovemaking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual activity |
| Synonyms: | carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, coquetting, courting, courtship, cuddling, dalliance, fondling, fooling around, foreplay, hugging, intercourse, intimacy, kissing, mating, screwing, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, smooching, snuggling, sucking face |
| Main Entry: | brush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch lightly |
| Synonyms: | caress, contact, flick, glance, graze, kiss, scrape, shave, skim, smooth, stroke, sweep, tickle |
| Main Entry: | caress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch lovingly |
| Synonyms: | bear hug, brush, buss, clinch, clutch, coddle, cosset, cuddle, dandle, embrace, feel, fondle, graze, handle, hug, kiss, make love, massage, mug, neck, nestle, nuzzle, pat, pet, play around, rub, squeeze, stroke, toy |
| Main Entry: | cuddle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hold fondly, closely |
| Synonyms: | bundle, burrow, caress, clasp, cosset, curl up, dandle, embrace, enfold, feel up, fondle, huddle, hug, kiss, love, nestle, nuzzle, pet, snug, snuggle, touch |
| Antonyms: | push away |
| Main Entry: | dispose of |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw away |
| Synonyms: | adios, bestow, chuck, deep six, destroy, discard, dump, eighty-six, eliminate, file in circular file, get rid of, give, jettison, junk*, kiss off, kiss*, make over, part with, relinquish, scrap, sell, transfer, unload |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, retain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | glance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ricochet, hit off of something |
| Synonyms: | bounce, brush, careen, carom, contact, dart, graze, kiss*, rebound, scrape, shave, sideswipe, skim, skip, slant, slide, strike, touch |
| Notes: | a glance captures more than a glimpse; the verb glance takes no object while glimpse does |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | graze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch |
| Synonyms: | abrade, brush, carom, chafe, glance off, kiss*, ricochet, rub, scrape, scratch, shave, skim, skip |
| Antonyms: | manhandle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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