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adjective

as in slobbering

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slavering

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verb

present participle of slaver
as in drooling
to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth a dog slavering over a bone

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Recent Examples of slavering
Verb
Dead Julian topples over her, slavering jaws snapping. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025 The welcome wagon on their second night as pioneers was a slavering mob. — Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slavering
  1. oily
  2. drooling
  3. oleaginous
  4. salivating
  5. sickening
  6. spitting
  7. soapy
  8. gushy
Adjective
  • The ground sometimes stank of the stuff, with open ponds that finally were ordered covered, with spills and seeps from wells and tanks that hinted at the long plumes of oily stuff underground.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
  • Because grunion are relatively small and oily, many people prepare them similarly to sardines.
    — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 14 July 2026
Definition of oily
Verb
  • The clearest early warning is heavy, frantic panting when a dog has not been exercising, along with drooling, red or dark gums, weakness or vomiting.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
  • Isaacs said the symptoms of heat stress or heat stroke include excessive panting, drooling, vomiting, seizures or collapse.
    — Renee Anderson, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Definition of drooling
Adjective
  • One defense, beginning in the late eighteen-hundreds, was flypaper, sheets of which were coated on one side with an oleaginous substance that lured flies, then permanently trapped them.
    — David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
  • Ted Cruz, the perennial front-runner, is smug and oleaginous—hated equally by his colleagues and the public.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
Definition of oleaginous
Verb
  • But that isn’t stopping Wall Street from salivating about what comes next.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 29 June 2026
  • For a quick refresher, Pavlov found that if dogs were repeatedly given food while a bell rang, the dogs eventually began salivating at the mere sound of the bell because their brains associated the sound with food.
    — Sharon Brandwein, USA Today, 27 June 2026
Definition of salivating
Adjective
  • The 2022 spill was the largest ever from the Keystone pipeline, killing or sickening 2,700 animals.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 10 July 2026
  • But there are multiple Ebola strains, and those vaccines, treatments, and tests aren’t effective against the rarer strain, Bundibugyo, sickening people today.
    — Alice Park, Time, 2 July 2026
Definition of sickening
Verb
  • And then there were watermelon-eating and seed-spitting contests and old fashioned sack races.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2026
  • Some three hours into the four-hour drive, the road plunged into a dizzying scribble of hairpin bends, eventually spitting us out into the Colca Valley, where, at the end of 2023, Andean pitched up Puqio.
    — Chris Schalkx, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2026
Definition of spitting
Adjective
  • For instance, in 2018, Ristroph and colleagues fine-tuned the recipe for the perfect bubble based on experiments with soapy thin films.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
  • Pick up the trap in the morning, discard the earwigs in a trash can, or shake them into a bucket of soapy water to kill them.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 July 2026
Definition of soapy
Adjective
  • Except for the unfettered devotion in the latter is replaced by swooping strings and a gushy chorus that merely offer an antiseptic veneer.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • The announcement may come as a shock for country fans who have followed the couple through their sappy podcast appearances and gushy acceptance speeches.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2026
Definition of gushy

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