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Synonyms for rocking

Grammar : Verb
Spell : rok
Phonetic Transcription : rÉ’k

Top 10 synonyms for rocking
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Définition of rocking

Origin :
  • "moving back and forth or to and fro," late 14c., present participle adjective from rock (v.1). Of music, from 1949 (see rock (v.2)). Rocking-horse is first recorded 1724; rocking-chair is from 1766.
  • verb move back and forth
Example sentences :
  • You'll find him rocking the cradle of Tippoo Wellington, my youngest son!
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • And Margaret would sit in the rocking while he cut the leaves and found the place.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • To-night—to-night, he is rocking just the same, in silence, in loneliness.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • If she wasn't feeding him, she was changing him; if she wasn't bathing him she was rocking him to sleep.
  • Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
  • "Don't you say it, if you do think it," said her aunt, sinking into a chair and rocking vigorously.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • While speaking in this fashion she walked to and fro, rocking the baby in her arms.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • I'm doing it now—if my writing joggles now and then it is because I am rocking.
  • Extract from : « Gloria and Treeless Street » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
  • He sat in the rocking chair and waited for the doctor who had promised to come—and yet might not come.
  • Extract from : « Now We Are Three » by Joe L. Hensley
  • The sun had risen, while they sat, rocking on their frail support.
  • Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
  • His boat was rocking on the tide-top and he seemed to be looking at her.
  • Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Antonyms for rocking

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