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pegging

verb , present participle of peg

Synonyms and Antonyms of pegging

1 to arrange or assign according to type

pegged her as a backstabber right from the beginning

Synonyms of pegging

assorting, breaking down, categorizing, classifying, classing, codifying, compartmentalizing, compartmenting, digesting, distinguishing, distributing, grading, grouping, placing, ranging, ranking, relegating, separating, sorting, typing

Words Related to pegging

arraying, disposing, drawing up, marshaling (or marshalling), ordering, organizing, systematizing

alphabetizing, cataloging (or cataloguing), filing, indexing, listing, referring

pigeonholing, shelving

identifying, recognizing

culling, screening, setting, sieving, sifting, winnowing

clumping, clustering, colligating

recategorizing, reclassifying, regrouping

subcategorizing

Near Antonyms of pegging

confusing, disarranging, jumbling, lumping, mixing (up), scrambling

misclassifying, missorting (or mis-sorting), mistyping

2 to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm

pegged the ball to the second baseman

Synonyms of pegging

casting, catapulting, chucking, dashing, firing, flinging, heaving, hurling, hurtling, launching, lobbing, lofting, pelting, pitching, slinging, throwing, tossing

Words Related to pegging

bowling, darting, flipping, gunning, hooking, passing, rolling, shooting

bucking, ejecting, impelling, precipitating, projecting, propelling, rifling, thrusting

Phrases Synonymous with pegging

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