Synonyms for spraying
spray·ing

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1. crop-dusting, sprayingnoun

   the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft)

   Synonyms:
   spray, crop-dusting

2. spray, sprayingnoun

   a quantity of small objects flying through the air

   "a spray of bullets"

   Synonyms:
   sprayer, atomiser, nebulizer, spray, nebuliser, atomizer, crop-dusting

3. sprayingnoun

   the application of a liquid in the form of small particles ejected from a sprayer

   Synonyms:
   spray, crop-dusting

Matched Categories

1. • Aircraft
   • Application
   • Dispersion

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1. List of paraphrases for "spraying":

   spray, fumigation, sprays, fumigations, atomization, sprinkler, sprinklers, watering, sprinkling

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1. Masanobu Fukuoka:

   One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I made the decision to sow rice in the fall, I found that I could also stop transplanting, and plowing, and applying chemical fertilizers, and preparing compost, and spraying pesticides.

2. Hugo Castro:

   If you go to the canal you see a bunch of homemade floatation devices. It's such a violent gamble, and people are consistently willing to do it. a tanker truck pulled up that evening and started spraying water on the road.

3. Neel Kashkari:

   It’s very hard to design a government program for the whole U.S. economy that is effectively targeted that doesn’t leave lots of people out, the checks are like spraying water against the fire: sometimes you just need water.

4. Ken Olson:

   The worst dioxin-contaminated site in Vietnam is Bien Hoa airbase, which is 30 miles north of Ho Chi Minh City, after President Nixon ordered the U.S. military to stop spraying Agent Orange in 1970, this is the site where all the Agent Orange barrels remaining in Vietnam were collected. The barrels were processed and shipped to Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean, where they were incinerated at sea in 1977.

5. Idrissa Diallo:

   These masked people were spraying the classrooms without telling the school administration what the chemical was they were spraying and without saying why they were masked, so we won't be sending our children to school for the moment.