The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SOUNDING
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What does SOUNDING mean?
SOUNDING verb- To produce a sound.
- To convey an impression by one's sound.
- To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
- To resound.
- (often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law.
- To cause to produce a sound.
- (of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
- Dive downwards, used of a whale.
- To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
- Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
- To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
- The action of the verb to sound.
- Emitting a sound.
- Sonorous.
- Test made with a probe or sonde.
- A measured depth of water.
- The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes
- (chiefly in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
- The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.