Synonyms for Lick:

adj.
• hell-for-leather
- most chop chop
- most double-time
n.
- carry off
- get through
- gloss over
- shrug off
- knock out
- beat up
- hammer blow
• a small quantity
- Bitting
• act
- lick
• approach
- manner
- new wrinkle
- program
- way
- wrinkle
• attempt
- all got
- all gots
- all one got
- all one gots
- all one's gots
- all ones got
- all ones gots
- one all
- one alls
- one darnedest
- one darnedests
- one level best
- one level bests
- one's alls
- one's darnedests
- one's level bests
- ones all
- ones alls
- ones darnedest
- ones darnedests
- under taking
- under-taking
- under-takings
• bat
- bat
• biff
- roundhouses
• blow
- biff
- blindside
- knuckle sandwich
- upper-cut
- uppercut
- uppercuts
- zap
• dash
- few drop
• drub
- drub
• endeavor
- crash project
- full court press
- full steam
- try-on
• gait
- gallop
- get along
• hit
- bell ringers
- bell-ringers
- bellringers
- one two punch
- onetwo punch
• knock
- in juries
- in jury
- in-jury
• lick
- punch
- salt lick
- work
- work out
• note
- de gree
- de grees
- de-gree
- de-grees
- re presentation
- re presentations
- re-presentations
• speed
- briskness
- legerity
- promptitude
• touch
- Palpations
- fondling
- palpation
- rubbing
- rubbings
- touchings
v.
• answer
- doped out
- dopes out
- doping out
- measured up
- measures up
- measuring up
- un zip
- un zipping
- un zips
- un-zipped
- un-zipping
- un-zips
- worked through
- works through
- wrought through
• best
- be sting
- be-sting
- ex celled
- ex celling
- ex-celling
- flaxed
- flaxes
- flaxing
- gat better of
- gat the better of
- get better of
- gets better of
- gets the better of
- getting the better of
- got better of
- got the better of
- gotten better of
- gotten the better of
- ko'd
- ko'ing
- koing
- lets have it
- letted have it
- letting have it
- out class
- out classing
- out shine
- out shined
- out shone
- out strip
- out strips
- out-classed
- out-classes
- out-classing
- out-shine
- out-shined
- out-shines
- out-shining
- out-strip
- out-stripped
- out-stripping
- out-strips
- pre vail
- pre vailed
- pre vailing
- pre vails
- pre-vail
- pre-vailed
- pre-vails
- shooting down
- shoots down
- sur pass
- sur passed
- sur passes
- sur-pass
- sur-passed
- sur-passes
- sur-passing
- taking care of
- triumphed over
- triumphing over
- triumphs over
- whomped
- wipe floor with
- wiped floor with
- wipes floor with
- wipes the floor with
- wiping floor with
- wiping the floor with
• blast
- lashed out at
- lashes out at
- lashing out at
- railed at
- railing at
- rails at
• conquer
- bring knees
- bringing knees
- bringing to knees
- brings knees
- brings to knees
- brought knees
- brought to knees
- dis comfit
- dis comfits
- dis-comfit
- dis-comfits
- getting better of
- out wits
- out witted
- out witting
- out-wit
- out-wits
- out-witted
- out-witting
- over master
- over mastered
- over mastering
- over masters
- over power
- over powered
- over powering
- over powers
- over ridden
- over ride
- over rides
- over riding
- over rode
- over threw
- over throw
- over throwing
- over thrown
- over throws
- over-master
- over-mastered
- over-mastering
- over-masters
- over-power
- over-powered
- over-powering
- over-powers
- over-ridden
- over-rides
- over-riding
- over-rode
- over-threw
- over-throw
- over-throwing
- over-thrown
- over-throws
- re duce
- re duces
- re-duce
- re-duces
- sub due
- sub dues
- sub jugate
- sub-due
- sub-dues
- sub-jugate
- trampled underfoot
- tramples underfoot
- trampling underfoot
- wipe map
- wiped map
- wiped off map
- wipes map
- wipes off map
- wiping map
- wiping off map
• defeat
- KOD
- de feat
- de feats
- de-feat
- de-feats
- finishes off
- finishing off
- out flank
- out flanked
- out flanking
- out flanks
- out hitting
- out jump
- out jumped
- out jumping
- out jumps
- out maneuvered
- out maneuvering
- out maneuvers
- out play
- out played
- out playing
- out plays
- out run
- out running
- out runs
- out-flank
- out-flanked
- out-flanking
- out-flanks
- out-hitting
- out-jump
- out-jumped
- out-jumping
- out-jumps
- out-maneuver
- out-maneuvered
- out-maneuvering
- out-maneuvers
- out-play
- out-played
- out-playing
- out-plays
- out-run
- out-running
- out-runs
- outhits
- outhitting
- outjumped
- outjumping
- outjumps
- over run
- over whelm
- over whelmed
- over whelming
- over whelms
- over-running
- over-whelm
- over-whelmed
- over-whelming
- over-whelms
- plowed under
- plowing under
- plows under
- prevailed over
- prevailing over
- prevails over
- ran roughshod over
- re press
- re pressed
- re presses
- re pressing
- re pulse
- re pulsed
- re pulses
- re pulsing
- re-presses
- re-pressing
- re-pulse
- re-pulsed
- re-pulses
- re-pulsing
- rolled back
- rolling back
- rolls back
- running roughshod over
- runs roughshod over
- steamrolled
- steamrolling
- steamrolls
- take all
- take cleaners
- takes all
- takes cleaners
- takes it all
- takes to cleaners
- taking all
- taking cleaners
- taking it all
- taking to cleaners
- took all
- took cleaners
- took it all
- took to cleaners
- up sets
- up setting
- up-set
- up-sets
- up-setting
- works over
- wrought over
• frustrate
- counter act
- counter acted
- counter acting
- counter acts
- counter-act
- counter-acted
- counter-acting
- counter-acts
- cramp one style
- cramp ones style
- cramped one style
- cramped one's style
- cramped ones style
- cramped style
- cramping one style
- cramping one's style
- cramping ones style
- cramping style
- cramps one style
- cramps one's style
- cramps ones style
- cramps style
- dash hope
- dash one hope
- dash ones hope
- dashed one hope
- dashed one's hope
- dashed ones hope
- dashes hope
- dashes one hope
- dashes one's hope
- dashes ones hope
- dashing hope
- dashing one hope
- dashing one's hope
- dashing ones hope
- de press
- de pressed
- de presses
- de pressing
- de-press
- de-pressed
- de-presses
- de-pressing
- dis courage
- dis courages
- dis hearten
- dis heartened
- dis heartening
- dis heartens
- dis-courage
- dis-courages
- dis-hearten
- dis-heartened
- dis-heartening
- dis-heartens
- fore stall
- fore stalled
- fore stalling
- fore stalls
- fore-stall
- fore-stalled
- fore-stalling
- fore-stalls
- gave run around
- gave the run around
- gives run around
- gives the run around
- giving run around
- giving the run around
- hanged up
- hanging up
- hangs up
- pre vent
- pre venting
- pre vents
- pre-vent
- pre-vented
- pre-venting
- pre-vents
- render null void
- rendered null and void
- rendered null void
- rendering null and void
- rendering null void
- renders null and void
- renders null void
- upset applecart
• hurdle
- jumped across
- jumping across
- jumps across
- leaping over
- leaps over
- overed
- overing
- saltated
- saltates
- saltating
• love
- drew close
- looked tenderly
- looking tenderly
- looks tenderly
- take in to arms
- take in to one arms
- take in to one's arms
- take in to ones arms
- take into arms
- take into one arms
- take into ones arms
- takes in to arms
- takes in to one arms
- takes in to one's arms
- takes in to ones arms
- takes into arms
- takes into one arms
- takes into one's arms
- takes into ones arms
- taking in to arms
- taking in to one arms
- taking in to one's arms
- taking in to ones arms
- taking into arms
- taking into one arms
- taking into one's arms
- taking into ones arms
- took in to arms
- took in to one arms
- took in to one's arms
- took in to ones arms
- took into arms
- took into one arms
- took into one's arms
- took into ones arms
• moisten
- SOGS
- be dew
- be dewed
- be dewing
- be dews
- be-dew
- be-dewed
- be-dewing
- be-dews
- bedews
- rained on
- raining on
- rains on
- sogged
- sogging
- waterlogging
- waterlogs
• mystify
- be fog
- be fogged
- be fogging
- be fogs
- be-fog
- be-fogged
- be-fogging
- be-fogs
- buffaloing
- fogs in
Other synonyms:

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welt
worst

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belt

•

bang

•

subdue

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• answer

• clobber

shellac

• defeat

• discipline

punish

• lap

• love

• moisten

• mystify

• overrun

• pummel

• resolve

• spank

• taste

tasting
try the flavor of

• thrash

• thresh

rain blows on

• touch

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conflict

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- Noun, singular or mass
  Nota.
- Interjection
  suck.
- Verb, base form
  suck.

What are the hypernyms for Lick?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
adore, caress, delight, enjoy, sample, savor, savour, smack, taste/sample.

What are the hyponyms for Lick?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for lick (as nouns)
- act
  touch, touching.
- object
  sediment, deposit.

What are the opposite words for lick?

Lick is a commonly used verb in English, often used to describe actions like using one's tongue to taste something or coat a surface with saliva. However, it also has several antonyms or opposite words, often used to denote the absence or reversal of this action. Some common antonyms for lick include dry, abstain, refuse, avoid, and reject. These words signify a deliberate act of restraint or non-action, recommending against the physical act of licking. For instance, you may urge someone to abstain from licking their wounds, redirecting them towards medical treatment instead. Overall, antonyms for "lick" help us express contrast and provide alternative possibilities.

What are the antonyms for Lick?

n.
• light touch; little amount
- glob
- lot
• noun
- abundance
- bonanza
- deal
- embarrassment
- excess
- gobs
- heaps
- hunk
- loads
- lump
- much
- overabundance
- overage
- overflow
- overkill
- overmuch
- oversupply
- pile
- plenty
- quantity
- slab
- superabundance
- superfluity
- surfeit
- surplus
- volume
n. pl.
• noun
- REAMS
- oodles
- scads
v.
• defeat, sometimes by hitting
- fail
- fall behind
- forfeit
- give in
- give up
- help
- retreat
- surrender
- yield
• play over with fire
- be still
- extinguish
- put out
- remain
- stay
• touch with tongue
- lose
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pack

Usage examples for Lick

An infant with a horrid stutter; I used to lick him for it; never knew whether it was meant for cheek or not....

"The Furnace"

Rose Macaulay

"I reckon I'll have to lick that son of a gun yet," sighed Kent, when a glance at the round clock in the hotel office told him that in just twenty minutes it would strike nine; and not a move made toward getting those horses saddled and out to the stockyards.

"Lonesome Land"

B. M. Bower

It is fun to hear them growling when they get their meat; and the way they lick it-oh, it's most exciting!

"Girls of the Forest"

L. T. Meade

Famous quotes with Lick

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

Tori Amos
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Wernher von Braun
Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

Kim Cattrall
Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

Alex Chilton
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Agatha Christie

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