Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb home

2 senses of home

Sense 1
home -- (provide with, or send to, a home)
       => house, put up, domiciliate -- (provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town")

Sense 2
home -- (return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons")
       => return -- (go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean")

Antonyms of adj homing

1 sense of homing

Sense 1
homing -- (orienting or directing homeward or to a destination; "the homing instinct"; "a homing beacon")

INDIRECT (VIA orienting) -> disorienting -- (causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings; "making so many turns to the right and then the left was completely disorienting"; "a sharp blow to the head can be disorienting")

Similarity of adj homing

1 sense of homing

Sense 1
homing -- (orienting or directing homeward or to a destination; "the homing instinct"; "a homing beacon")
       => orienting (vs. disorienting), orientating -- (positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually; "noticed the bee's momentary orienting pause before heading back to the hive"; "an orienting program for new employees")

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