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Synonyms for spraying
spray·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
crop-dusting, sprayingnoun
the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft)
Synonyms:
spray, crop-dustingspray, sprayingnoun
a quantity of small objects flying through the air
"a spray of bullets"
Synonyms:
sprayer, atomiser, nebulizer, spray, nebuliser, atomizer, crop-dustingsprayingnoun
the application of a liquid in the form of small particles ejected from a sprayer
Synonyms:
spray, crop-dusting
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List of paraphrases for "spraying":
spray, fumigation, sprays, fumigations, atomization, sprinkler, sprinklers, watering, sprinkling
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4521 | spray | |
#17275 | watering | |
#21147 | spraying | |
#21549 | sprinkler | |
#21837 | sprays | |
#33771 | sprayer | |
#34701 | sprinklers | |
#48046 | sprinkling | |
#59166 | fumigation | |
#60994 | nebulizer | |
#90021 | atomizer | |
#111319 | atomization | |
#197654 | nebuliser | |
#209060 | atomiser |
How to use spraying in a sentence?
The influx of spending is like nothing we've ever seen before. I would have expected that to be potentially a little bit more measured, but it has been completely like literally a runaway train, they were sort of spraying money everywhere.
A lot of people said that they sprayed this on their pillows at night before they went to sleep, to give them a nice fragrance -- so you can imagine that there are, there are uses of this, even beyond just spraying in a room, where it might bring someone in very close contact with the bacteria.
It’s very hard to design a government program for the whole U.S. economy that is effectively targeted that doesn’t leave lots of people out, the checks are like spraying water against the fire: sometimes you just need water.
Beehives in New York City are healthier I would say then the beehives in the Midwest. There is little to no spraying( of pesticides) on top of buildings, no chemicals interfering with their ins and outs.
The one showed in the video is nothing like what we have conducted before, there should not be any water spraying or making the kids wade in a muddy pit—let alone involving a snake.
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