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What are compound words with -thing in them?

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Compound words are formed by joining two words when building a word with a new meaning:up-to-date, mother-in-law, one-half, cannot, skateboard, outside.

A particular group consists of compound words with the suffix -thing. We single out the following terms: anything, everything, plaything, nothing, something, breathing, eating, clothing, smoothing, tithing, lathing, bathing, withing, pithing, kything, and others.

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