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licking 音標拼音: [l'ɪkɪŋ] n. 舔,一舔,鞭打
ad. 猛烈地 舔,一舔,鞭打猛烈地 licking n 1: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; " it was a narrow defeat"; " the army' s only defeat"; " they suffered a convincing licking" [ synonym: { defeat}, { licking}] [ ant: { triumph}, { victory}] 2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [ synonym: { beating}, { thrashing}, { licking}, { drubbing}, { lacing}, { trouncing}, { whacking}] Lick \ Lick\ ( l[ i^] k), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Licked} ( l[ i^] kt); p. pr. & vb. n. { Licking}.] [ AS. liccian; akin to OS. likk[= o] n, D. likken, OHG. lecch[= o] n, G. lecken, Goth. bi- laig[= o] n, Russ. lizate, L. lingere, Gr. lei` chein, Skr. lih, rih. [ root] 121. Cf. { Lecher}, { Relish}.] 1. To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master' s hand. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { To lick the dust}, to be slain; to fall in battle. " His enemies shall lick the dust." -- Ps. lxxii. 9. { To lick into shape}, to give proper form to; -- from a notion that the bear' s cubs are born shapeless and subsequently formed by licking. -- Hudibras. { To lick the spittle of}, to fawn upon. -- South. { To lick up}, to take all of by licking; to devour; to consume entirely. -- Shak. -- Num. xxii. 4. [ 1913 Webster]
Licking \ Lick" ing\, n. 1. A lapping with the tongue. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A flogging or castigation. [ Colloq. or Low] [ 1913 Webster] 88 Moby Thesaurus words for " licking": Waterloo, appetite, beating, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, chewing, collapse, conquering, conquest, consumption, crash, cropping, deathblow, debacle, defeasance, defeat, deglutition, destruction, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, downfall, dressing- down, drubbing, eating, epulation, failure, fall, feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, grazing, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hiding, hunger, ingestion, lambasting, larruping, lathering, leathering, manducation, mastery, mastication, messing, munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, paddling, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, quietus, regalement, relishing, rout, ruin, rumination, savoring, shellacking, smash, subdual, subduing, subjugation, tanning, tasting, thrashing, trimming, trouncing, undoing, vanquishment, vegetarianism, walloping, whaling, whipping, wolfing
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