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rockingverbpresent participle of rock to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motionsthe boat was rocking so much that several passengers felt seasick careening, lurching, pitching, rolling, seesawing, swaying, tossing, wobbling(also wabbling) blundering, bucking, doddering, faltering, floundering, halting, hitching, hobbling, jerking, jolting, reeling, shaking, staggering, stumbling, teetering, toddling, tottering, tumbling, vacillating, vibrating, waddling, wavering, weavingoscillating, undulating, wagging, waggling to swing unsteadily back and forth or from side to sidethe drunk rocked on his heels for a moment and then fell flat on his back faltering, teetering, tottering, wavering, wobbling(also wabbling) floundering, lurching, stumbling, toddlingquaking, quavering, quivering, shaking, shuddering, trembling, vibratingcareening, reeling, staggering, weaving to make senseless or dizzy by a blowshe rocked the mugger with a single punch and then ran dazing, stunning deadening, knocking out, paralyzingbenumbing, numbing, stupefyingbowling over, knocking downbanging, bashing, belting, bludgeoning, bonking, bopping, clobbering, clocking, clouting, hammering, hitting, pasting, pounding, punching, rapping, slamming, slapping, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, striking, swatting, thumping, thwacking, walloping, whacking, whalingbattering, beating, buffeting, bunging, chopping, cuffing, drubbing, mangling, mauling, pelting, pummeling(also pummelling) knocking for a loop, knocking silly to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpectedthe news of the mayor's sudden death rocked the city amazing, astonishing, astounding, bowling over, dumbfounding(also dumfounding), flabbergasting, flooring, shocking, startling, stunning, stupefying, surprising(also surprizing), thunderstriking befuddling, bewildering, blindsiding, blowing away, confounding, confusing, dazing, discomfiting, disconcerting, dismaying, jarring, muddling, nonplussing(also nonplusing), perplexing, shaking up knocking for a loop, taking aback, taking by surprise |