Synonyms for spraying
spray·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "spraying":

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

How to pronounce spraying?

How to say spraying in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use spraying in a sentence?

1. Andrew Coté:

   Beehives in New York City are healthier I would say then the beehives in the Midwest. There is little to no spraying( of pesticides) on top of buildings, no chemicals interfering with their ins and outs.

2. Christopher Cantwell:

   I thought that spraying the guy was the least damaging thing I could do, in my left hand, I had a flashlight. My other option, other than the pepper spray, was to break this guy’s teeth. OK? And I didn’t want to do that. I just wanted him not to hurt me.

3. Michael Robbins:

   It got cooked onto the muffler, just spraying out there slowly and brought me down, that started flashing to let me know I had a serious problem.

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. 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.