impingent

impingent
im·pin·gent

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  • glancing — Synonyms and related words: brushing, contacting, contingent, flanking, grazing, impingent, impinging, in contact, lateral, lee, leeward, meeting, next beside, nudging, osculatory, rubbing, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • grazing — Synonyms and related words: ablation, abrasion, abrasive, animal husbandry, animal rearing, appetite, attrition, bee culture, beekeeping, breeding, brushing, buffing, burnishing, campo, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • meeting — Synonyms and related words: Mass, Olympic games, Olympics, accompanying, accordant, accumulated, agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregate, aggregation, agreeing, amassed, appointment, approach, approaching, appulse, articulation,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • rubbing — Synonyms and related words: apograph, brushing, carbon, carbon copy, caressing, companion, confrication, contacting, contingent, copy, dead ringer, double, duplicate, duplication, effigy, exact likeness, feeling, fellow, fiche, fingering,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • tangential — Synonyms and related words: approaching, asymptotic, brushing, centripetal, centrolineal, concurrent, confluent, confocal, connivent, contacting, contingent, converging, digressive, divergent, extraneous, focal, glancing, grazing, impingent,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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