NOSING Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

nosing

verb

Definition of nosing

present participle of nose

as in sniffing

to become aware of by means of the sense organs in the nose could nose the garbage from across the street

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Relevance

as in interfering

to interest oneself in what is not one's concern a neighbor who likes to nose around in everyone else's business

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as in dragging

to move slowly the line to get tickets is just nosing, so we are going to be here for a while

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Verb

And the men’s team in Midtown — led by owner James Dolan, who notoriously left the Liberty for dead — couldn’t come close to sniffing the Larry O’Brien trophy either.

— Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
Ryder said police got a call about Thompson acting irrationally and possibly sniffing glue.

— Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of sniffing

Verb

That wider perspective matters, because sovereignty isn't achieved simply by dragging every service into the spare room.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Aug. 2026
The video opens with Itami dragging a half-conscious Burke by his legs and delivering him to a young couple on a crime spree.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of dragging

Verb

The feat, says study coauthor and NSO senior scientist Friedrich Wöger, is equivalent to seeing ants crawling on Earth’s surface from an altitude of 100 miles (about 160 km).

— Lee Billings, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2026
If your garden has been beset by destructive crawling insects like ants, beetles, and slugs, pesticides often seem like the clear solution.

— Abby Monteil, The Spruce, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of crawling

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Legionnaires' disease is a severe form of pneumonia that is caused by inhaling the Legionella bacteria in small droplets of water mixed in the air or contaminated water accidentally going into the lungs.

— Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 31 July 2026
Health effects from inhaling wildfire smoke But the effects are sweeping, said Hayden, who has developed real-time mapping of mortality estimates from wildfire smoke.

— Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 18 July 2026

Definition of inhaling

Verb

At first glance, corals present as little more than colorful rocks — piles of lobes, stalagmites, and branches poking out from the seafloor.

— Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
Carpenter suggests applying it to vertical surfaces, or using soaked cotton balls in open glass jars (or poking holes in the lids to allow the fumes to escape).

— The Spruce, The Spruce, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of poking

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