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 first World Cup in North America for 32 years is generating record attendances, TV viewing figures, and revenues.
    — Chris Pope, Washington Post, 15 July 2026
  • In a new Fortune report, my colleague Amanda Gerut examines why investors appear willing to assign Amazon-like valuation multiples to a company generating only a few percent of Amazon’s revenue while still reporting operating losses.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 14 July 2026
Definition of generating
Verb
  • The film has proved both controversial and enduring, spawning an eight-film franchise and earning its chainsaw-wielding antagonist, Leatherface, a spot among film’s most iconic horror villains.
    — Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 July 2026
  • These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026
Definition of spawning
Verb
  • The free and open internet faces threats from companies propagating walled gardens designed to control your data and the rise of black-box AI systems.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 8 July 2026
  • For some vexillophiles, the issue is not so much who is propagating the spin-off Ross flag but the design itself.
    — Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
Definition of propagating
Verb
  • 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
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  • As of 2000, the species had established a self-sustaining breeding population in the South Florida ecosystem.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 11 July 2026
  • For years, the only factory breeding sterile flies in the Western Hemisphere was in Panama, but the USDA invested $21 million to convert a site in southern Mexico from breeding fruit flies to recently start breeding screwworm flies.
    — John Hanna, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026
Definition of breeding
Verb
  • The pond is overstocked as a result of the fish naturally reproducing, Zibert said.
    — Zuri Primos July 8, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
  • Rather than simply reproducing the work, the designers transformed the painting’s floating metallic bells into a repeating pattern of pink and blue soccer balls.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of reproducing
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“Kittening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kittening. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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