Synonyms for harnessing

Grammar : Verb

Spell : hahr-nis

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑr nɪs

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Définition of harnessing

Origin : "to put a harness on a draught animal," c.1300, from Old French harneschier, from harnois (see harness (n.)); figurative sense is from 1690s. Related: Harnessed; harnessing.

verb rein in; control

Example sentences :

He chuckled all through the harnessing of Daniel, the venerable white horse.
Extract from : « Cap'n Eri » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

But I was not aware that you had engaged in roping or harnessing the animal.
Extract from : « Glyn Severn's Schooldays » by George Manville Fenn

The harnessing of an Italian diligence is a mystery to all but an Italian postilion.
Extract from : « Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber » by James Aitken Wylie

Beechnut did not answer to this proposal, but went on harnessing the horse.
Extract from : « Stuyvesant » by Jacob Abbott

Carriers' men were harnessing the freshly groomed bays to the pole.
Extract from : « Complete Short Works » by Georg Ebers

When it came to harnessing, the first trouble of the day began.
Extract from : « The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 » by Roald Amundsen

The cure had not waited for this assent to go and give an order for harnessing the horses.
Extract from : « The Honor of the Name » by Emile Gaboriau

He enjoyed helping with the horse, harnessing and unharnessing it.
Extract from : « In Pawn » by Ellis Parker Butler

Miss Miller assisted in harnessing one side while Zan did the other.
Extract from : « The Woodcraft Girls at Camp » by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

When we come to think of it, the harnessing of the sun is not so very strange.
Extract from : « Boys' Second Book of Inventions » by Ray Stannard Baker

Antonyms for harnessing

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