Shying is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHYING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SHY, to jump aside, recoil
• (especially of a horse) start suddenly aside in fright at an object, noise, or movement
• avoid doing or becoming involved in (something) due to nervousness or a lack of confidence
• fling or throw (something) at a target
NOUN:
• a sudden startled movement, especially of a frightened horse.
• an act of flinging or throwing something at a target.
ADJECTIVE:
• nervous or timid in the company of other people
• slow or reluctant to do (something)
• having a dislike of or aversion to a specified thing
• (of a wild mammal or bird) reluctant to remain in sight of humans
• less than; short of
• before
• (of a plant) not bearing flowers or fruit well or prolifically.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move suddenly back or aside, as in fear

Words related to SHYING

shied9 shies8 shy9

How to use SHYING in a sentence

• But the boat swerved at the sight of us, like a shying horse, and was off in another direction as fast as eight frantic oars could drive her.
• Shying at a gypsy encampment, he rushed at headlong speed down a zigzagged chalk road, and at last pitched head-first over a declivity.
• The horse, as his rider spoke, stopped suddenly, and, shying quickly to the one side, the captain was pitched off, and fell with his whole weight upon the hard pavement.
• He found himself shying away from them like a nervous horse.
• They went on, shying off from the fleeing animals lest they drive them back instead of forward.
• The moon seemed to swing to and fro in the sky, and every twisted tree and fantastic shadow that lay in my path made me start aside like a shying horse.
• The man did not spare either oaths, spurring, or blows of his heavy whip, until the horse, still shying but obedient at last, went trembling past the truck.
• Riderless horses galloped wildly over the field, shying at the grim piles of dark blue bodies, sniffing the blood and neighing pitifully.
• The red-headed cook had anticipated forty guests outside of his own outfit, and was pouring coffee into tin cups and shying biscuit right and left on request.
• Had never, indeed, attempted seriously to make out, shying from such investigation as disloyal and, in a way, irreverent.
• Yet all the while, as her hearing clearly testified, the unseen ponies hustled one another, plunging, shying away from the swish and crack of a long-thonged whip.
• Soon they became so used to the sight of him that they would come right up to his foot without starting or shying.

Similar words containing SHY without suffix ing

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