Definitions for soaring

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soaring soar·ing

Spelling: [sawr-ing, sohr-]

IPA: /ˈsɔr ɪŋ, ˈsoʊr-/

Soaring is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 267 anagrams from letters in soaring (aginors).

Definitions for soaring

noun

1. the sport of flying a sailplane.
2. an act or instance of soaring.
3. the height attained in soaring.

verb (used without object)

1. to fly upward, as a bird.
2. to fly at a great height, without visible movements of the pinions, as a bird.
3. to glide along at a height, as an airplane.
4. to rise or ascend to a height, as a mountain.
5. to rise or aspire to a higher or more exalted level:

Origin of soaring

First recorded in 1895-90; soar + -ing¹

Examples for soaring

He was a soaring star from the moment he finished his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

In West Africa, where the epidemic began, the number of cases has been soaring for eight straight months.

Then the soul spreads wings into the blue and sings to Him like soaring lark.

Strapped for medical staff and lacking in the resources needed to treat the 5,338 suspected cases, the numbers are soaring.

A U.S. escalation of bombing in Iraq and Syria would send it soaring.

Tyndall's scientific ballast cannot keep him from soaring in a similar manner.

The soaring Kate, bearing her less brave sister in her arms, has fallen.

There were, he continued, two different modes of soaring flight.

My captain is an eagle, both as respects his eye and soaring wings.

Thanks to the shale revolution, domestic oil production is soaring.