Caressing

Word CARESSING
Character 9
Hyphenation caressing
Pronunciations /kəˈɹɛsɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Caressing"

What do we mean by caressing?

To touch or kiss lovingly; to fondle.

To affect as if with a caress.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Caressing

The word "caressing" in example sentences

Twenty-six-year-old Cyrille Aimée, with a voice like fine whiskey -- oaky and smooth, with a hint of smokiness -- offered a languid "Ce soir," caressing the French words, and an aggressive "Summertime," both trailing long strands of vocal roulades. ❋ Anne Midgette (2010)

Fred Willard lying face down on the floor with his chin caressing the carpet is an image I won’t soon forget. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ryne wasn't a toucher, no one in her family had been, and the idea of caressing him made her feel self-conscious. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This was the man whose report had brought about the condemnation of his book; and it was with resentment that he recalled his caressing air and charming greeting, instinct with such lying promise. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

Instead of "caressing" testers might have needed categories like "stoic" or "completely neutral" or maybe even "kept interrupting the baby's tests to talk about himself and/or sports." ❋ David Petrie (2010)

Once she grouped these adults by the level of affection shown by the mother at that eight-month assessment, she found that the children whose mothers were ranked as "caressing" and "extravagant" had significantly lower levels of distress as adults. ❋ David Petrie (2010)

Cadfael shepherded his charge within, and watched him subside gratefully on to the narrow cot, and sit there mute for a moment, laying his burden down beside him with a kind of caressing gentleness. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1992)

I shall never forget the delight of occasional visits to his house; he was extraordinarily kind and really sympathetic, and he had with young people a kind of caressing deference in his manner that used to give one an agreeable sense of dignity. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

The hero is a Polish prince, with everything that a stage Polish prince requires about him -- handsome, superficially amiable, what the precise call "caressing" and the vulgar "carneying" in manner, but extravagant, quite non-moral, and not possessed of much common sense. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

I am not in the least afraid that she'll bite me; and as for caressing the animal, — that kind of caressing which you mean, — it seems to me to be just what she's made for. ❋ Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 (1872)

There was a kind of caressing persuasion in his whole manner that magnetized the audience. ❋ George William Curtis (1858)

For the first time Faith's head drooped, and she turned, but it was to pass her mother and go upstairs; laying her hand for an instant as she went, with a kind of caressing touch, on her mother's arm; then she was gone. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

I am not in the least afraid that she'll bite me; and as for caressing the animal, -- that kind of caressing which you mean, -- it seems to me to be just what she's made for. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

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