Meaning & use
dotting
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Marking with small round points, or scattering small things across a surface at intervals.
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She spent the afternoon dotting the map with pins to mark each city they'd visited.
Wildflowers were dotting the hillside after the spring rains.
A note on using this word
The phrase 'dotting the i's and crossing the t's' uses this word to mean attending carefully to every last detail.
Words with a similar meaning
specklingscattering
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