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Definition of checking : of Check

Synonyms:

inspecting, contemplating, studying, perusing, scrutinizing, reviewing, examining, scanning, observing, considering, surveying

dotting, blotting, discoloring, flawing, disfiguring, splotching, scuffing, blistering, staining, specking, distorting, tainting, spoiling, scraping, hacking, chipping, nicking, spotting, tarnishing, abrading, damaging, hurting, flecking, scoring, notching, fracturing, gashing, cracking, marking, defecting, defacing, kinking, slitting, scratching, marring, blemishing, freckling, scarring, deforming

shearing, discharging, chopping, jettisoning, excluding, excreting, eliminating, clipping, curtailing, sniping, erupting, rejecting, disclaiming, cropping, secreting, venting, culling, spewing, vomiting, junking, disgorging, jilting, blacklisting, shedding, deep-sixing, cutting, disapproving, seeping, emitting, blackballing, evacuating, lopping, oppugning, exuding, exhausting, draining, ejecting, ejaculating, abandoning, discarding, barring, denying, excising, trashing, belching, disallowing

detaining, fouling, bottlenecking, plugging, snarling, restricting, clogging, stopping, cramping, snagging, crimping, encumbering, baffling, handicapping, catching, damming, delaying, complicating, frustrating, burdening, entrapping, braking, choking, blocking, constraining, dragging, bunging, hamstringing, impairing, tangling, fettering, paralyzing, curbing, constipating, interrupting, entangling, congesting, miring, staying, hampering, jamming, thwarting, crippling

contradicting, hindering, fighting, intercepting, disagreeing, protesting, crossing, interfering, impeding, obstructing, repelling, countering, resisting, oppressing, antagonizing, objecting, counteracting, suppressing, opposing, counterattacking, confronting, challenging, rebuffing, repressing, meddling, repulsing, defying, conflicting, disputing

documenting, journalizing, collecting, tabling, detailing, inventorying, booking, logging, chronicling, totaling, accounting, indexing, budgeting, cataloging, tabulating, registering, enumerating, tallying, itemizing, recording, filing, recounting, invoicing, auditing, digesting, counting, scheduling, storing, noting, listing, summarizing

deflecting, discouraging, averting, diverting, inhibiting, disheartening, daunting, deterring, preventing, banning, depressing, disinclining, intimidating, dampening, dissuading, restraining, chilling, admonishing, derailing

negating, nullifying, canceling, disaffirming, invalidating, counterbalancing, inverting, effacing, disavowing, renouncing, disproving, repudiating, reversing, overturning

experimenting, trying, analyzing, investigating, probing, benchmarking, verifying, determining, testing, proving, researching, assaying

confirming, ascertaining, establishing, demonstrating, double checking, finding out, assuring, certifying, substantiating

dappling, checkering, striating, marbling, streaking, striping, coloring, colorizing, tessellating

Usage examples:

• In checking the numbers we discover the planes are ferry planes bound for Malta." - "A Yankee Flier in Italy", Rutherford G. Montgomery.
• " Why, I was checking up on those people who were at Gresham's, last evening, and they all agreed that young Jarrett and the Lawrence girl had left the party about ten. - "Murder in the Gunroom", Henry Beam Piper.
• Rip was everywhere, checking on the launcher, on Kemp, on the pistols of his men. - "Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet", Harold Leland Goodwin.