Antonyms for harnessing


Grammar : Verb
Spell : hahr-nis
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑr nɪs


Definition 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

Synonyms for harnessing

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