Thesaurus results for SMOKING

smoking

verb

present participle of smoke, slang

as in bombing

to defeat by a large margin man, they totally smoked us today!

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Recent Examples of smoking One resident, Alfred Roundtree, sat outside smoking a cigarette. — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2026 Leon Schlesinger, the head honcho of Warner cartoons, is smoking a cigar and rips up Porky’s contract. — James Grebey, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2026 Stock Down Caleb Douglas, the rookie receiver who was smoking hot during the early training camp practices, had a quiet third week of training camp. — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 24 Aug. 2026 Cast-Iron Cowboy Steak This is the best way to cook a thick, juicy bone-in steak restaurant-style without smoking up the house. — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2026 Jessica Irgens, a passenger aboard the flight, told CBS News the fire began roughly 30 minutes before landing when another passenger’s laptop began smoking and caught fire. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2026 Two of the four officers who arrested Miller also initiated the violent and viral 2023 arrest of Bojangles employees who were smoking legal hemp at a Steele Creek bus stop in 2023. — Charlotte Observer, 22 Aug. 2026 Irgens said another passenger's laptop started smoking and caught fire, filling the plane with smoke. — Kierra Frazier, CBS News, 22 Aug. 2026 And the fastest-growing patient population within the disease is young, never-smoking women. — Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoking

Verb

The status of its nuclear program, degraded by bombing strikes in 2025, hasn't changed.

— Susan Page, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Prabowo vowed the government would continue supporting firefighting operations, including through the deployment of additional water-bombing helicopters and oxygen supplies for firefighters.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of bombing

Verb

The 19-year-old left-hander could not get out of the first inning, burying low Single-A Lake Elsinore early in a 21-2 loss to visiting San José.

— Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
Without adequate reinforcement, shifting ground can cause tunnels to collapse suddenly, burying miners within seconds.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of burying

Verb

Whisk with ¾ cup whole milk and use in any sweet recipe that doesn’t require whipping.

— Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2026
At the landing zone, with bullets whipping and cracking around them, Capers—barely clinging to consciousness—refused to board the helicopter until every last man, and his dog’s body, was aboard.

— Ethan Rocke, Charlotte Observer, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of whipping

Verb

The discovery opens up new possibilities for heat management in next-generation quantum devices, overcoming bottlenecks faced earlier.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2026
Wachter said some young buyers are overcoming high housing costs by looking at older homes and fixer-uppers, putting their own time and labor into improvements or even renting out part of the property to help cover costs.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of overcoming

Verb

Right now the only person who likes Heather is Carmella, and that’s because Heather is throwing some work Carmella’s way and trying to find a law school apartment for her daughter Cat.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
Next happiest to see someone of Murray’s throwing and scrambling ability would be a defense tired of getting short breaks from an offense ranked last in third-down conversions.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of throwing

Verb

How To Deep Clean Stained Wood Baseboards For stained wood baseboards, Matthews advises dusting using a dry microfiber cloth and Murphy’s Oil or a wood cleaning oil (remove excessive dirt and crumbs with a vacuum cleaner first).

— Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 19 Aug. 2026
Despite Han Solo's protestations to the contrary, travelling faster than light on screen is usually just as straightforward as dusting crops.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 1 Aug. 2026