OPENING (UP) Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

opening (up)

verb

Definition of opening (up)

present participle of open (up)

as in scooping (out)

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as in needing

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Verb

Seventy percent chose oil, compared with 9% who selected freeing Venezuelans.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
Arévalo was tasked with not only freeing a state captured by kleptocrats, but also strengthening one that was fundamentally weak.

— Will Freeman, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of freeing

Verb

Their ambitions abroad, then, aren’t driven by needing to find an audience somewhere else.

— Crystal Bell, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2026
Moreover, these buses are packed, with kids needing to somehow keep their backpacks, sports equipment and instruments on their laps.

— Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of needing

Verb

Beyond wanting reform of existing religious options, these various sects differed greatly from each other.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Romantic and financial motive Prosecutors have focused on Flynn’s romantic and financial motive for wanting to kill his wife and get away with it.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of wanting

Verb

Load in the orchestration layer, the tooling, the integrations and, above all, the human supervision, because someone is reviewing, correcting and unblocking that agent, and their time is real money.

— Ajay Pundhir, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
The 14-day truce, which the US said is conditional on Iran unblocking Hormuz, has yet to translate into a meaningful increase in shipping.

— Julian Lee, Bloomberg, 9 Apr. 2026

Definition of unblocking

Verb

Every Washington Nationals player filtered into the news conference room at Nationals Park on Friday afternoon, taking their seats among Cade Cavalli’s family, team ownership and staff members.

— Danielle Allentuck, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2026
Martha and her mother Maria Alberto Gonzalez and his wife, Catalina Gonzalez, remember taking two buses and a train from their home on the North Side to get to the restaurant in the late 1960s.

— Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of taking

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opening (up)

open letter

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