kittening

verb

present participle of kitten
as in kidding

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kittening
  1. kidding
  2. kindling
  3. generating
  4. spawning
  5. propagating
  6. begetting
  7. breeding
  8. reproducing
Verb
  • But Guthrie wasn’t kidding, slipping into a yellow gingham dress before joining her co-hosts on the Today Show Plaza to greet visitors.
    — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
  • Just kidding, but seeing Angela’s team sweep Shamea’s at the Bailey Bowl basketball tournament was almost as satisfying as knowing Charles got to witness his former team’s historic win in person.
    — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 22 June 2026
Definition of kidding
Verb
  • Even minor parks or embers might be carried into leaves or grass, kindling a fire that can swiftly expand.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
  • Photography arrived, kindling an enthusiasm that Baudelaire, ever the cynic, compared to a lust for pornography.
    — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Definition of kindling
Verb
  • The trip to the UK and the family vacation have demonstrated once again that Markle remains one of the figures most capable of generating international buzz.
    — Amaia Odriozola, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The employees generating the most output are not necessarily producing the most value.
    — Dan Schawbel, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of generating
Verb
  • Fish in his regular local lake were spawning in their thousands, providing plenty of action.
    — Sam Lee, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
  • And just as mobile phone use evolved in Africa in different ways from other parts of the world, spawning earlier and more prolific adoption of digital payments, AI use and deployment will differ.
    — Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of spawning
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  • Mai is propagating more than 170 varieties collected from refugees around the world, helping preserve these precious grains while studying which are best suited to our changing climate.
    — Laura Mclively, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Sensory neurons carry information as traveling waves of electrical charge called action potentials — brief, self-propagating voltage spikes that move down the length of a nerve fiber.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of propagating
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  • To remain an entertainment capital demands consistent reinvention, the showroom’s neon glow begetting the nightclub’s flashing LEDs and so on and so forth.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026
  • War begetting still more war, like some deranged biblical prophecy.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2026
Definition of begetting
Verb
  • Screen, then securely close rain barrels to help keep mosquitoes from breeding, too.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Google applied for an experimental use permit to inject mosquitoes with a specific strain of the Wolbachia pipientis bacteria, which would prevent them from breeding.
    — Kimberly Miller, USA Today, 31 July 2026
Definition of breeding
Verb
  • The sargassum that began reproducing in the region earlier than usual this year stems from a record 40 million metric tons reported last year.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026
  • The herd is one of only two found to be reproducing in increasingly hotter Florida waters.
    — Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026
Definition of reproducing
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