Meaning

1 senses
  1. The act by which something is sprayed.

    The parched lawn needed several sprayings before the grass looked green again.

More definitions
  • the application of a liquid in the form of small particles ejected from a sprayer
  • the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft)
  • a quantity of small objects flying through the air

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From spray + -ing.

From spray + -ing.

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Forms

plural: sprayings
Singularspraying
Pluralsprayings

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft):crop-dusting
  • a quantity of small objects flying through the air:spray

Word family

2 related words
Relatedspray

See also

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