romancing
present participle ofromance
romance
verb
uk/rəʊˈmæns//ˈrəʊ.mæns/us/roʊˈmæns//ˈroʊ.mæns/[I]
totellstoriesthat are nottrue, or todescribeaneventin a way that makes itsoundbetterthan it was
[T]old-fashioned
totrytopersuadesomeone toloveyou
Defining & explaining
- account (tosomeone) forsomething
- accountability
- adumbration
- annotation
- annotator
- crystallize
- define
- explain
- explicable
- explicate
- expound
- indescribable
- lay
- miswrite
- nail
- nailsomeonedown
- non-defining
- non-descriptive
- non-explanatory
- rough
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Examplesofromancing
romancing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
I do not wish to be accused ofromancing.
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With that last remark we moved from a serious discussion of the matter intoromancingand the novel.
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Yet in the end it is only concealment by futureromancingof a reverse that has been sustained in the present.
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The world does not believe any more in classical ways but has goneromancing.
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I went to the police, thunderstruck by that information, and asked whether it could really be true or whether my constituents wereromancing.
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That is a fact of life, and anyone who thinks to the contrary isromancingfrom a distance.
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That is notromancing; it is a fact.
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Their professions intervene with their personal lives, preventing them from any seriousromancingprior to marriage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He also went on long drinking binges, attended cockfights, and spent much of his timeromancingyoung women.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.During the bridge, both areromancingwithin the cabin's bathroom, with the video intercutting to different romantic scenarios.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The letter alleged that the charity was being looted by its president, who wasromancinga young woman.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Asakura won't stand for any indecorousromancingon her watch.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He once again plays a wealthy businessman but is down on his luck with his finances andromancingwomen.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The games often have various mini-games in them as well, such as drinking, dancing andromancingcharacters.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The film deals with the reincarnation as main subject with the lead actorsromancingin both the incarnations.
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- from beyond the grave
- from-beyond-the-grave
- (from) cover to cover
- from-cover-to-cover
- from dawn to dusk
- from-dawn-to-dusk
- (from) day to day
- from-day-to-day
- from far and wide
- from-far-and-wide
- from head to toe
- from-head-to-toe
- from hell
- from-hell
- (from) hour to hour
- from-hour-to-hour
- from memory
- from-memory
- from one day to the next
- from-one-day-to-the-next
- from/out of nowhere
- from-out-of-nowhere
- from pillar to post
- from-pillar-to-post
- from scratch