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Noun leafing has 1 sense
- foliation, leafing - (botany) the process of forming leaves
--1 is a kind of growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
Verb leaf has 3 senses
- flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riff - look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"
--1 is one way to peruse
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- leaf - turn over pages; "leaf through a book"; "leaf a manuscript"
--2 is one way to turn, turn over
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
- leaf - produce leaves, of plants
--3 is one way to grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
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Something ----s
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