Synonyms for lick
lɪklick

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Beat
   • Drink
   • Sediment
   • Stroke
   • Touch
   • Understand

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. slurp

   to lick in a harder conotation

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 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 WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. licknoun

   Synonyms:
   slap, stroke, blow

2. lickverb

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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "lick":

   kiss, suck

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How to use lick in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Hannah Salomons:

   With the dog puppies we worked with, if you walk into their enclosure, they gather around and want to climb on you and lick your face, whereas most of the wolf puppies run to the corner and hide.

3. 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.

4. American Proverb:

   If you can't lick 'em, join 'em.

5. Eric Hoffer:

   People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.