as in drooling
to express emotion in a very dramatic or obvious way
He stood on the stage, emoting and gesturing wildly.
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Recent Examples of emoting
As with all Disney On Ice shows, whenever possible the characters are voiced and sung by the original actors from the movie versions, with the ice performers skating and emoting to the pre-recorded voice tracks.
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Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026
Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emoting
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When the schedule dropped, network brass had to be drooling over this matchup.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
27 Feb. 2026
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Some viewers were convinced the young up-and-comer was drooling on live TV.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
25 Feb. 2026
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Infantino’s gesture might strike people unacquainted with World Cup history as shamelessly fawning.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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With the Republican Congress fawning at his feet, the ideal of democracy that the will of the people governs the nation is being buried under multimedia waves of the autocratic ambition of wealth.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
21 Feb. 2026
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Your son is fussing in his car seat.—
Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
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Emma looked around, confused at the adults fussing around him and too young, perhaps, to grasp the severity of the scene.—
Maeva Bambuck,
CNN Money,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Emoting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emoting. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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