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caressing
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Word definitions for caressing in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. showing love; "caressive words" [syn: caressive ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
caressing \caressing\ n. the act of embracing; holding in one's arms . foreplay without contact with the genital organs. Syn: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A caress. vb. (present participle of caress English)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Caressing (foaled April 18, 1998) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare . She won five of her eighteen races in a track career which lasted from July 2000 until November 2002. As a two-year-old she won two of her first four races before recording ...
Usage examples of caressing.
Although it had been a warm summer, the creek water was still cool and refreshing, caressing his naked body as ice calms a bum, the gentle pressure of the current soothing his muscles, tense from a hard ride on Morgan.
I fancied the countess sensible like an Englishwoman, passionate like a Spaniard, caressing like a Frenchwoman, and as I had a good enough opinion of my own merit, I did not doubt for a moment that she would respond to my affection.
The lingering essence of One Who Cries seeped from the worked wood of the foreshaft, caressing his fevered skin.
He took the opportunity to study the outer parts of her body, stroking and caressing her back, breasts, buttocks, legs, thighs, arms, shoulders, neck and head.
She smelled of lilacs and when she leaned over him, her long hair tickled his bare chest as though a hundred eager fingers were caressing him.
The Nahua, who lived in central Mexico before the Aztec, said that Mayahuel originally lived in the heavens, where she slept constantly, guarded by the stern goddess TzitzimitL But the god of winds blew across her, caressing and arousing her until she awoke.
And in the heart of the midnight city, in one of the glittering boxbeam lifeunits, an off-duty Sandman stirs to the sensual play of soft fingers caressing the skin of his chest.
Dick Varley, who was still seated beside the council fire caressing Crusoe.
Burning one moment, shivering the next, Caressing you while showering you with tears, Giving each charm a thousand eager kisses, Wishing to touch at once a thousand blisses And, at the ones beyond my power, vexed, Abandoned in a furious desire, Leaving these charms for other charms that fire, Possessing all and yet desiring Until, destroyed by excesses of pleasure, Finding no words of love nor anything To express my fires overflowing measure Than deepening sighs and obscure murmuring: Ah!
In his cantatas he shows himself at once captivating and caressing, and in his minuets he is delightful and full of humour.
The hand covering her mouth slid down her body, caressing her breasts while he nuzzled her earlobes intimately.
The headlights on the jeeplike vehicle were off, hands, almost caressing it.
She took his face between her hands, his long sideburns caressing her palms, and gazed deeply into his eyes.
And when Silas did slide the towel from her body, lingering, caressing her skin with the silken warmth of his mouth, it was like a dream come true, like a private secret fantasy, too magical surely to be actually happening.
Murray Bradshaw was surprised and confounded at the easy way in which she received his compliments, and played with his advances, after the fashion of the trained ballroom belles, who know how to be almost caressing in manner, and yet are really as far off from the deluded victim of their suavities as the topmost statue of the Milan cathedral from the peasant that kneels on its floor.