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Synonyms for lick
lɪklick

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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. salt lick, licknoun

    a salt deposit that animals regularly lick

    Synonyms:
    poke, salt lick, lap, biff, slug, punch, clout

  2. 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, clout

  3. punch, 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, poking

  4. cream, 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, lam

  5. lick, 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 out

  6. solve, 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 out

  7. lap, 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 Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. slurp

    to lick in a harder conotation

    Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. lickverb

    Synonyms:
    pass the tongue over

  2. lickverb

    Synonyms:
    lap, take up with the tongue

  3. lickverb

    Synonyms:
    [Low.] beat, flog, thrash, LAMM

  4. licknoun

    Synonyms:
    taste

  5. licknoun

    Synonyms:
    [Low.] blow, slap

  6. licknoun

    Synonyms:
    salt-lick

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. licknoun

    Synonyms:
    slap, stroke, blow

  2. lickverb

    Synonyms:
    lap, flog, thrash, chastise, castigate, trounce, drub, whip

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "lick":

    kiss, suck

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How to use lick in a sentence?

  1. Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip:

    Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

  2. Pastor George Davis:

    As a pastor, honestly we really don’t have much time to lick our wounds, like a police officer, if somebody they know has been shot, they still have to reach for their weapon to protect those that are left.

  3. Julio Barbosa:

    I've been dreaming about this. The first thing I would do is go to a samba and hug my friends. I would even lick the beer that drips on the counter.

  4. Bryan Fuller:

    We had been telling the story of Hannibal Lecter, foreigner in America, so far, and now we transition the story, he's returning to more familiar settings to lick his wounds. It allows us to explore the emotional bandwidth of his character and see him pining for his friend Will.

  5. John Bel Edwards:

    Our people have taken a pretty good lick here from Hurricane Ida, but our people are very resilient and strong as well. Having said that, we need all the help that we can get from the federal government, from the nonprofit sector, from the faith community, and certainly from us at the state level and working with our local partners as well.


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