Lacked vs Licked - What's the difference?
lacked | licked |
(lack)
(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
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A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
* Shakespeare
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To be short (of'' or ''for something).
* Shakespeare
To be in want.
* Bible, Psalms xxxiv. 10
(lick)
The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue.
* Gray
A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
(colloquial) A stroke or blow.
(colloquial) A bit.
(music) A short motif.
speed. In this sense it is always qualified by good', or ' fair or a similar adjective.
To stroke with the tongue.
(colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
(colloquial) To overcome.
(vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
(colloquial) To do anything partially.
To lap
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
To lap; to take in with the tongue.
As verbs the difference between lacked and licked
is that lacked is (lack) while licked is (lick).lacked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*lack
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let his lack of years be no impediment.
- I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.''
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Antonyms
* glut * surplusVerb
(en verb)- My life lacks excitement.
- He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
- What hour now? I think it lacks of twelve.
- The young lions do lack , and suffer hunger.
Anagrams
* ----licked
English
Verb
(head)lick
English
(licking)Noun
(en noun)- The cat gave its fur a lick .
- Give me a lick of ice cream.
- a lick''' of paint; to put on colours with a '''lick of the brush
- a lick of court white wash
- The birds gathered at the clay lick .
- We used to play in the lick .
- Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
- You don't have a lick of sense.
- I didn't do a lick of work today.
- There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
- The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.
Synonyms
* (bit) see also .Verb
(en verb)- The cat licked its fur.
- My dad can lick your dad.
- I think I can lick this.
- Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
- A cat licks milk.
- (Shakespeare)
