What is another word for lick?
Synonyms for lick
lɪklick
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Princeton's WordNet
salt lick, licknoun
a salt deposit that animals regularly lick
lick, lapnoun
touching with the tongue
"the dog's laps were warm and wet"
Synonyms:
poke, circuit, slug, overlap, lap, biff, lap covering, salt lick, circle, punch, cloutpunch, clout, poke, lick, biff, slugverb
(boxing) a blow with the fist
"I gave him a clout on his nose"
Synonyms:
jabbing, punch, type slug, pigeon berry, clout, jab, garget, carrier bag, sack, thrust, bullet, salt lick, slug, dawdler, poke, pull, paper bag, lagger, biff, clout nail, thrusting, sluggard, puncher, drone, trailer, lap, laggard, scoke, pokingcream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lickverb
beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
"We licked the other team on Sunday!"
Synonyms:
bat, jactitate, clobber, puzzle out, toss, drub, thrash, solve, work, skim off, convulse, slam, slash, thrash about, mosh, work out, flutter, slam dance, lap, baste, cream, batter, lap up, skim, thresh, cream off, figure out, thresh about, flail, lamlick, lapverb
pass the tongue over
"the dog licked her hand"
Synonyms:
work out, clobber, wash, lave, thrash, solve, bat, puzzle out, swoosh, lap up, work, swish, lap, drub, cream, swosh, figure outsolve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, workverb
find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
"did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem"
Synonyms:
influence, knead, turn, operate, act, shape, lap up, bat, cream, work out, run, function, put to work, figure, elaborate, forge, clear, make, drub, figure out, form, compute, mould, sour, calculate, solve, work, exploit, go, play, work up, make for, mold, bring, clobber, thrash, reckon, act upon, do work, process, crop, exercise, resolve, ferment, cultivate, work on, cypher, lap, cipher, wreak, puzzle outlap, lap up, lickverb
take up with the tongue
"The cat lapped up the milk"; "the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"
Synonyms:
bat, clobber, cream, lave, thrash, solve, puzzle out, swoosh, lap up, work out, swish, lap, drub, wash, swosh, figure out, work
Editors Contribution
slurp
to lick in a harder conotation
Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#123 | go | |
#125 | work | |
#132 | make | |
#368 | form | |
#431 | process | |
#516 | play | |
#552 | act | |
#672 | run | |
#853 | function | |
#907 | clear | |
#958 | figure | |
#1007 | turn | |
#1425 | bring | |
#2042 | exercise | |
#2898 | circuit | |
#2943 | influence | |
#2990 | cream | |
#3012 | shape | |
#3201 | circle | |
#3373 | suck | |
#3810 | pull | |
#3852 | calculate | |
#3903 | trailer | |
#3943 | operate | |
#4618 | kiss | |
#4953 | solve | |
#5204 | wash | |
#5648 | crop | |
#5981 | resolve | |
#7477 | bat | |
#7679 | bullet | |
#8114 | punch | |
#8608 | lap | |
#8988 | mold | |
#9768 | forge | |
#9945 | compute | |
#10264 | exploit | |
#11841 | slam | |
#12027 | sour | |
#12058 | overlap | |
#12318 | lam | |
#12572 | thrust | |
#12751 | lick | |
#13066 | elaborate | |
#13997 | slash | |
#14874 | toss | |
#15199 | sack | |
#19499 | batter | |
#19589 | slug | |
#20854 | poke | |
#20940 | mould | |
#23915 | cipher | |
#24187 | reckon | |
#24442 | cultivate | |
#26237 | skim | |
#27075 | swish | |
#27901 | thrash | |
#31630 | jab | |
#31696 | drone | |
#31869 | poking | |
#34187 | clout | |
#37891 | flutter | |
#44867 | biff | |
#45564 | mosh | |
#47021 | cypher | |
#47316 | thrusting | |
#51515 | wreak | |
#56901 | swoosh | |
#57219 | clobber | |
#60296 | ferment | |
#61094 | knead | |
#69890 | thresh | |
#77417 | flail | |
#79573 | lave | |
#102244 | baste | |
#108360 | puncher | |
#148156 | jabbing | |
#155334 | laggard | |
#229027 | convulse | |
#276449 | sluggard | |
#307570 | drub | |
#328722 | lagger |
How to use lick in a sentence?
Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973:
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
Echidnas can’t pant, sweat or lick to lose heat, so they could be impacted by increasing temperature and our work shows alternative ways that echidnas can lose heat, explaining how they can be active under hotter conditions than previously thought, understanding the thermal biology of echidnas is also important to predict how they might respond to a warming climate.
We’re just trying to get people to try it, you know, so many people have a little phobia about drinking tequila. [ They think ] it's going to be nasty, you're going to hold your nose and drink it down as fast as you can and suck on a lime and lick some salt — but our tequila certainly isn't that way.
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Chief Executive Rupert Pearce:
It was a very slightly soft start but it picked up well during the quarter, we are going at a decent lick into the second.
Translations for lick
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- لعق, لحسArabic
- চাটাBengali
- ལྡག་པTibetan Standard
- llepar, llepadaCatalan, Valencian
- lízatCzech
- llyfuWelsh
- Lecken, schlagen, besiegenGerman
- γλείφωGreek
- lekiEsperanto
- derrotar, lamedura, vencer, bofeton; golpazo, lamber, lamerSpanish
- noolima, lakkumaEstonian
- لیس, لیسیدنPersian
- klaarata, nuolla, pieksääFinnish
- sleikjaFaroese
- léchage, vaincre, lécher, défaireFrench
- lighIrish
- imlichScottish Gaelic
- lamberGalician
- לִקֵּקHebrew
- चाटनाHindi
- nyalHungarian
- լիզել, լպստելArmenian
- jilatIndonesian
- sleikjaIcelandic
- leccareItalian
- 舐める, 舐ぶる, 負かすJapanese
- 핥음, 핥다Korean
- lingō, lambōLatin
- ເລຍLao
- laižytiLithuanian
- laizītLatvian
- лиже, лиз, лижењеMacedonian
- likken, likDutch
- lecarOccitan
- lizać, lizaniePolish
- lamber, lambidaPortuguese
- llaqwayQuechua
- lingeRomanian
- побежда́ть, лиза́ть, победи́ть, лиза́ниеRussian
- njoallutNorthern Sami
- liznuti, лизати, лизнути, lizatiSerbo-Croatian
- lízaťSlovak
- lizati, polizatiSlovene
- lëpijAlbanian
- slickaSwedish
- నాకుTelugu
- yalamakTurkish
- چاٹناUrdu
- LiếmVietnamese
- 舔Chinese
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