CLAMMING Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

clamming

verb

present participle of clam

as in fishing

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The pair, who often get called by each other’s names, recently spent a weekend fishing together.

— Wendy Naugle, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Adamson was fishing with a spinning reel and 10-pound-test line.

— Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of fishing

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The show acknowledges the two histories aren’t equivalent yet invokes the comparison anyway, congratulating itself for recognizing the distinction while still harvesting the emotional weight of the analogy.

— Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2026
Rather than harvesting silk from spiders, researchers study silk by placing silk genes into bacteria or other cells.

— Aliasger K. Salem, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of harvesting

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But like identifying any kind of wild food, foraging for edible mushrooms requires extensive knowledge on how to do so safely.

— Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 6 Aug. 2026
The findings suggested that food—or perhaps foraging—drove increases in brain size in primates, rather than complex social interactions, another leading theory.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of foraging

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clamming up

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