Antonyms for leg
lɛgleg

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1. • Cloth Covering
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1. legnoun

   a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle

   Synonyms:
   peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branch

2. legnoun

   a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion

   Synonyms:
   peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branch

3. legnoun

   one of the supports for a piece of furniture

   Synonyms:
   peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branch

4. branch, leg, ramificationnoun

   a part of a forked or branching shape

   "he broke off one of the branches"

   Synonyms:
   branching, stage, ramification, wooden leg, pegleg, peg, arm, offshoot, subdivision, forking, complication, outgrowth, fork, limb, offset, branch

5. legnoun

   the limb of an animal used for food

   Synonyms:
   peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branch

6. peg, wooden leg, leg, peglegnoun

   a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

   Synonyms:
   branch, stage, nog, pegleg, stick, oarlock, pin, ramification, rowlock, tholepin, wooden leg, peg, thole

7. legnoun

   a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg

   Synonyms:
   peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branch

8. legnoun

   (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack

   Synonyms:
   peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branch

9. stage, legnoun

   a section or portion of a journey or course

   "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"

   Synonyms:
   branch, stage, level, pegleg, peg, stagecoach, degree, point, ramification, wooden leg, phase, microscope stage

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1. legnoun

   Synonyms:
   limb, shank, shin, (bones of the leg) tibia, fibula, femur, thigh bone, epipodiale

   Associated words:
   crotch, hock, hough, solen, cradle, puttee, hip, thigh, haunch gyve, scarpines, calf, galligaskins, spatterdashes, leggings

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. leg

   Synonyms:
   crus

How to use leg in a sentence?

1. Judith Sherman:

   The results, once they are available, they need to be brought back to the health facility and communicated to the mother and while many efforts have been made to shorten each leg of that continuum, we need to do better. Mothers are still waiting up to two months for those test results and that can be a very long period in an HIV positive infant's life.

2. Deion Sanders:

   They were talking about the amputation of toes, then they were talking about the amputation of my leg from the knee down. Then, they were trying to ensure I had life.

3. Robert Kugler:

   They said this is the worst news I could give you; she had advanced osteosarcoma and it’s already in her lungs so you need to either take her leg today or put her down, i just didn’t want her to be gone one day when I came home.

4. Euan Graham:

   A port is the missing leg of the stool in U.S. military engagement with Australia.

5. Satrio Wiradinata Riady Boer:

   Anything can happen if one is buried too long. The victim's leg or hand may have to be amputated, or they could run out of oxygen.

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