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. Ford Cleveland:

   The propane tank also caught on fire and started spraying everywhere and added to the chaos, it made it burn a lot more. When it exploded, everyone started getting really worried because there was just so much fire on the side of the house.

2. Mustapha Debboun:

   We have a lot of water, a lot of areas that have plenty of mosquitos breeding. We will go and do some spraying until the populations go down.

3. Jeneiv Shah:

   The fact that a tractor and row-crop oriented company such as John Deere did this means it won't be long before corn or soybean farmers in the U.S. Midwest will start using precision spraying.

4. Jennifer McQuiston:

   A lot of people said that they sprayed this on their pillows at night before they went to sleep, to give them a nice fragrance -- so you can imagine that there are, there are uses of this, even beyond just spraying in a room, where it might bring someone in very close contact with the bacteria.

5. Steven Howard:

   The thing begins to fire, and it begins to jump and buck all over the place, your first human instinct is for your hands to clamp down, and you clamp down on the trigger, and if the thing has a 32-round magazine ... it starts spraying all over and people get killed.