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PEALING

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)

Synonyms:

peal; pealing; roll; rolling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("pealing" is a kind of...):

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

Derivation:

peal (sound loudly and sonorously)

peal (ring recurrently)

 II. (verb) 

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-ing form of the verb peal

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