GUTTERING Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

guttering

verb

Definition of guttering

present participle of gutter

as in smelting

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Known as the lifeblood of the Southwest, the Colorado River starts in the Rocky Mountains, fed by melting snowpack, and ends in the Gulf of California in Mexico.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
According to these simulations, the sample would start melting at its surfaces around 1,085°C (1,985°F).

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of melting

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Your children therefore may not understand the scope of the difference between trying a swimsuit on a figure that looks like them online and not wearing clothes at all, according to Steel.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
Now, Ramirez and Chang are trying to bring the same sense of connection to their own classrooms.

— Melissa May, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026

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Raw chicken was thawing inside a prep sink in low stagnant water measuring 81 degrees.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 21 Aug. 2026
According to Allrecipes, soft cheeses like cream cheese, ricotta and goat cheese don’t freeze well and tend to separate or become grainy after thawing.

— Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of thawing

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Summit has proposed capturing CO2 emissions from dozens of ethanol plants in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska, liquefying it under pressure and transporting it via the pipeline to North Dakota, to sequester it deep underground.

— Donnelle Eller, Des Moines Register, 13 Feb. 2026
Their chemical concoction containing the bacterium is then pumped in, liquefying the rock underground.

— Kelsey Brown, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2026

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Duarte was named to the Under 30 list in 2012 after founding George Stone Crab in Miami.

— Alexandra York, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Yet the reunion proceeded without Johnson, the band’s founding drummer, who’d pleaded guilty in 2020 to violating a domestic violence protection order and who was arrested in 2021 on charges of child abuse.

— Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026

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