PEPPERING Antonyms

• the act of making something completely wet

• a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them

• so strong as to be irresistible

• very strong; urgently felt

• spreading or spread throughout

• To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.

• To traverse or complete thoroughly.

• To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

• To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.

• To nullify the impact of someone or something.

• Cloth for making blankets.

• A layer of something that covers like a blanket.

• The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.

• A manoeuvre in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails.

• an overwhelming number or amount

• a heavy rain

• the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

• fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

• charge someone with too many tasks

• fill or cover completely, usually with water

• cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance

• infuse or fill completely

• cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across

• to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light

• low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

• a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables

• drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged

• fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid