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View definitions for lick

lick

noun as in light touch; little amount

verb as in touch with tongue

verb as in play over with fire

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Example Sentences

By 11:20 p.m., flames from the Franklin fire were licking the hillside, and the couple had packed their bags to flee.

"Ranchers could even introduce the seaweed through a lick block for their cattle."

Hezbollah needs a pause to lick its wounds.

From BBC

Researchers studying the endangered animals had reported occasionally seeing this nectar licking but had never captured it on video.

You could spend days under your headphones unraveling the dense weave of riffs, licks, rhythms and languages in this song.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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