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🎵 Near Rhymes for "Sharpening"
35 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| partisan | 3 | noun | A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea. |
| shortcoming | 3 | noun | A deficiency or falling short; failure to attain a goal or ideal. |
| heartening | 2 | Cheerfully encouraging. | |
| sparkling | 3 | noun | Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles. |
| disheartening | 3 | Causing a person to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy. | |
| harnessing | 3 | noun | The materials used to harness an animal. |
| marketing | 3 | noun | (uncountable) The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; the work of a marketer; includes market research and advertising. |
| encircling | 4 | noun | enclosing, skirting |
| darkening | 2 | noun | The act of something becoming darker. |
| worshipping | 3 | noun | An act of worship. |
| determining | 4 | Determinative; causal. | |
| forfeiting | 3 | noun | The act by which something is forfeited or surrendered; a giving up. |
| gardening | 2 | noun | (horticulture) The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture. |
| circling | 3 | noun | A circular motion. |
| telemarketing | 5 | noun | The business of selling products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers. |
| carpeting | 3 | noun | Carpet or a piece of carpet, especially when speaking of installation or removal. |
| harvesting | 3 | noun | (agriculture) The gathering of a mature crop; a harvest. |
| surfacing | 3 | noun | The act of coming above the surface. |
| purchasing | 3 | noun | An act or process of making a purchase. |
| parceling | 3 | noun | (nautical) Alternative form of parcelling. [(nautical) One of the long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used also in mousing on the stays, etc.] |
| apportioning | 4 | noun | apportionment |
| targeting | 3 | noun | An instance of targeting. |
| worsening | 3 | noun | A worse situation; an aggravation or deterioration |
| burdening | 3 | verb | (transitive) To encumber with a literal or figurative burden. |
| hardening | 2 | noun | The process by which something hardens. |
| shortening | 2 | noun | (US, cooking) Fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying. |
| marshaling | 3 | noun | Alternative form of marshalling. [(software) The process of transforming the memory representation of an object to a data format suitable for storage or transmission, which is typically used when data must be moved between different parts of a computer program, or from one program to another.] |
| landscape gardening | 5 | noun | The development and decoration of open spaces, especially gardens. |
| snorkeling | 3 | noun | The act of swimming using a snorkel. |
| hurdling | 3 | noun | (athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles. |
| pardoning | 3 | noun | The act by which somebody is pardoned. |
| market gardening | 5 | noun | (British) The relatively small-scale growing of vegetables for market. |
| marveling | 3 | noun | Alternative form of marvelling. [The act of one who marvels; amazement.] |
| cornhusking | 3 | noun | The removal of the husk from corn (maize). |
| smartening | 3 | verb | (transitive) To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up. |
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Poetry
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