GROOVING Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

grooving

verb

present participle of groove

as in scratching

to mark with or as if with a line or groove if you groove that piece of wood, we should be able to fit this smaller board into it

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as in blending

to form a pleasing relationship surprisingly, his flighty, artistic sensibility and her no-nonsense practicality groove together rather well

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Recent Examples of grooving Michael Goessling remembers being eight years old and grooving to The Doobie Brothers. — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026 On Labor Day 2025, Zohran Kwame Mamdani enjoyed Brooklyn’s West Indian American Day Parade, grooving on various floats as an assemblyman representing Astoria, Queens. — Reshma B, VIBE.com, 7 Sep. 2026 The band is a Midwest, R&B, Blues and grooving ensemble that has played at other Milwaukee venues, including the Summerfest grounds. — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Speirs began moving and grooving between innings, choreographing dances for each player’s walk-up song. — Abigail Dollins, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Aug. 2026 One of the video's most memorable sequences features Madonna grooving to the dance-pop track while riding a gondola. — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026 Embodied by the O’Jays, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Lou Rawls, and others, it was grown-up and plush, but still grooving—the seedbed for the sizzle of disco, with an emphasis on Black pride. — Rhoda Feng, New Yorker, 24 July 2026 But was Alicia suddenly having the time of her life grooving to this classic? — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 1 June 2026 Rinker, 71, had been wearing AirPods, grooving to oldies. — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026

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Test the plant’s health by lightly scratching the woody stems—healthy tissue beneath the bark will typically look green.

— Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 9 Oct. 2026
Well, then the sound of television writer Joe Wiseman clearing his throat over and over again might as well be Gilbert Gottfried’s laugh scratching against a chalkboard.

— Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of scratching

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Chow followed it with Kung Fu Hustle (2004), another genre-blending smash that earned more than $100 million worldwide and cemented his reputation as one of Hong Kong’s greatest comedy-action hitmakers.

— Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
Coinciding with the presentation that christened her store, Hod also launched a fragrance blending green tea and orchid blossoms, which is available to purchase as a perfume, candle or diffuser.

— Ari Stark, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of blending

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Desulme’s attorney, Ben Kuehne, told the Miami Herald his client was disappointed in the ruling and would be appealing it, in addition to filing a counterclaim against Morgan for the 80-cent shortage.

— Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
Perry-Bond also rebuked the lawyer who requested the gag order for including in a court filing an email exchange with an attorney for one of the other men.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of filing

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When the food is ready, the order number appears on a screen above the kiosks as well as on individual screens at each corresponding stall.

— Senior Food Editor, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Abhishek Menon, the study’s corresponding author and a graduate student, said solving the engineering challenges associated with heavier ions could also simplify trapping lighter species.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of corresponding

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Neither of them knew how much work lay ahead, and Don was a perfectionist, scribing each new board to fit as snugly as a puzzle piece against the irregular stone walls.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, the game has increasingly moved from scribing per se to revenue-cycle management, where health systems can see the financial payoff.

— Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026

Definition of scribing

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Charges say the video shows Buckney renting a shooting lane at the gun shop under his name and correlating with a customer account number.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
What does Open Command do and not do in terms of correlating with pitcher quality statistics?

— Eno Sarris, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026