PLEASURING Synonyms: 87 Similar and Opposite Words

pleasuring

verb

present participle of pleasure

as in pleasing

to give satisfaction to a wine that is sure to pleasure even the most discriminating palate

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Recent Examples of pleasuring Sophie has spent so long this season being a role of service, and for Benedict to now be washing her hair and then pleasuring her felt like a really nice switcheroo that Sophie deeply deserved. — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026 David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest—which turns 30 this month—foresaw a near-future America pleasuring itself to death. — Jason Guriel, Air Mail, 21 Feb. 2026 But pleasuring yourself could actually relieve some of these symptoms. — Erica Sweeney, SELF, 4 Feb. 2026 During her job interview, Girlie is shown a video of a girl pleasuring a man. — Sarah Rose Etter, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2025

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Former Angels executives, however, can recite chapter and verse the difficulty of pleasing Moreno.

— Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 30 July 2026
The result is an easy, crowd-pleasing frozen Mississippi mud pie that’s equally at home at a summer cookout or holiday gathering.

— Matt Lewis, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 July 2026

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Last week, an F/A-18 Super Hornet from the Blue Angels, the Navy’s flight-demonstration team, zoomed dangerously low along the Florida coast, stirring up sand and umbrellas, startling some beachgoers—and, it must be said, delighting many others.

— Missy Ryan, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026
Buzz Lightyear and Woody have been delighting families for three decades.

— Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of delighting

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In Kuwait, for example, summer nights are warming faster than summer days, cutting the overnight cooling period that people and infrastructure need to function.

— Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 29 July 2026
Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, warming at more than twice the global average, according to the European Union’s Copernicus climate service.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of warming

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