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nosing

verb , present participle of nose

Synonyms and Antonyms of nosing

1 to become aware of by means of the sense organs in the nose

could nose the garbage from across the street

Synonyms of nosing

scenting, smelling, sniffing, snuffing, whiffing

Words Related to nosing

breathing, drinking (in), inhaling, respiring

snorting, snuffling

savoring (also savouring)

2 to interest oneself in what is not one's concern

a neighbor who likes to nose around in everyone else's business

Synonyms of nosing

butting in, interfering, interloping, intermeddling, intruding, meddling, messing, mucking (about or around), obtruding, poking, prying, snooping

Words Related to nosing

interceding, interposing, intervening

barging (in), chiseling (in) (or chiselling (in)), encroaching, infringing, invading, trespassing

fiddling, fooling, monkeying, playing, tampering

Near Antonyms of nosing

avoiding, eschewing, shunning

disregarding, ignoring, neglecting, overlooking

3 to move slowly

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

Synonyms of nosing

crawling, creaking (along), creeping, dragging, inching, limping, oozing, plodding, poking, slouching, snailing

Words Related to nosing

lumbering, shambling, shuffling, tramping, trudging

Near Antonyms of nosing

floating, gliding, sailing

hurrying, tearing

Antonyms of nosing

flying, racing, speeding, whizzing, zipping

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