kneading

• abating
• abrasion
• attrition
• back rub
• beating
• boasting
• brushing
• caress
• carving
• chasing
• chirapsia
• chiseling
• chiselling
• coining
• cutting
• drawing
• fashioning
• forging
• forming
• friction
• graving
• grinding
• hammering
• hewing
• knapping
• manipulation
• minting
• modeling
• modelling
• molding
• pat
• patting
• planishing
• polish
• pounding
• rasping
• scouring
• scraping
• sculpting
• sculpturing
• shine
• smear
• smoothing
• stamping
• stroking
• swab
• swipe
• wear
• wipe
• working

• verb
  1. To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
  2. To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
  3. (of cats) To make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
  4. To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.
• noun
  1. The process by which something is kneaded.

• She spent the afternoon kneading dough for fresh bread.
• The baker was kneading the mixture with practiced hands.
• He started kneading the clay to prepare it for sculpting.
• The cat was gently kneading the cushion with its paws.
• Kneading is a crucial step in developing gluten in bread dough.

hammering

necking

canoodling

knapping

gentling

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