Definition for Lick:

• A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied.

Synonyms for Lick:

• n.

  •
  • glance,
  • pass over,
  • cope,
  • manage,
  • rub,
  • soothe,
  • caress,
  • brush,
  • ripple,
  • sweep,
  • tranquilize,
  • kiss,
  • calm,
  • graze.
  •
  • counterpoint,
  • run over,
  • accompaniment,
  • quiver,
  • leap,
  • fluctuate,
  • breakbeat,
  • wave,
  • vibrate,
  • excerpt,
  • arpeggio,
  • cadence,
  • palpitate,
  • flourish,
  • coda,
  • advance,
  • dart,
  • blaze,
  • vacillate,
  • waver,
  • burn,
  • descant,
  • shoot,
  • crescendo,
  • tremble.
  •
  • overpower.
  •
  • bludgeon,
  • stun.
  •
  • devour,
  • demolish,
  • crunch,
  • bolt,
  • lay into,
  • reward,
  • bite,
  • attack,
  • cannibalize,
  • chomp,
  • hide,
  • champ.
  •
  • rout,
  • subdue,
  • master,
  • ace,
  • prevail against,
  • bump,
  • butt,
  • win.
  •
  • grasp,
  • tap,
  • pound,
  • sock,
  • bop,
  • clutch,
  • paste,
  • strike,
  • contact,
  • wallop,
  • grip,
  • hold,
  • handling,
  • clip,
  • swat,
  • thwack,
  • whack.
  •
  • handle,
  • feel,
  • pluck,
  • pat.
  •blow (noun)
  • poke,
  • slap,
  • biff.
  •gait (noun)
  • gait.
  •lick (noun)
  • bat,
  • salt lick,
  • punch,
  • drub,
  • work,
  • work out,
  • puzzle out.
  •light touch; little amount (noun)
  • hint,
  • tinge,
  • cast,
  • speck,
  • trace,
  • whiff,
  • smack,
  • suggestion,
  • sample,
  • dab.

• v.

  •defeat, sometimes by hitting (verb)
  • outstrip,
  • overwhelm,
  • down,
  • smother,
  • smear,
  • spank,
  • throw,
  • top,
  • lambaste,
  • excel,
  • surpass.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bash,
  • improvisation.
  •
  • subjugate,
  • conk,
  • lash,
  • flog,
  • wham.
  •
  • welt,
  • worst.
  •
  • belt.
  •
  • bang.
  •clobber
  • shellac.
  •defeat
  • prevail over.
  •discipline
  • punish.
  •love
  • love.
  •mystify
  • buffalo.
  •Other relevant words:
  • flatten,
  • diddly-squat,
  • whisper,
  • jolly,
  • mosh,
  • butter,
  • grovel,
  • step,
  • coax,
  • euchre,
  • Tromp,
  • bag,
  • swing,
  • set,
  • endeavour,
  • build,
  • lay in,
  • overpraise,
  • get,
  • thump,
  • labor,
  • overthrow,
  • mite,
  • skin,
  • baffle,
  • bust,
  • sandbag,
  • tumble,
  • footling,
  • lave,
  • hobble,
  • peck,
  • toil,
  • cajole,
  • move,
  • pervading,
  • beating,
  • bid,
  • lace,
  • lay waste,
  • breath,
  • dint,
  • do away with,
  • extempore,
  • bubkes,
  • frivolous,
  • employment,
  • fuddle,
  • craunch,
  • pay court to,
  • suppress,
  • fawn upon,
  • adversity,
  • bear down,
  • break down,
  • dig,
  • trial and error,
  • masticate,
  • impromptu,
  • osculate,
  • peanuts,
  • shatter,
  • shade,
  • bathe,
  • fusillade,
  • scruple,
  • have a fling,
  • gulp down,
  • strain,
  • thrash about,
  • mutilate,
  • palpate,
  • run,
  • ferment,
  • gulp,
  • streak,
  • plug,
  • munch,
  • move over,
  • humor,
  • light,
  • play,
  • skin alive,
  • drumming,
  • carve,
  • destroy,
  • crawl,
  • sip,
  • flutter,
  • slavery,
  • hew,
  • sense of touch,
  • slug,
  • cadenza,
  • evolve,
  • crop,
  • maze,
  • ubiquitous,
  • ghost,
  • stripe,
  • snap,
  • tread,
  • perplex,
  • stick,
  • strap,
  • court,
  • whup,
  • horsewhip,
  • feeling,
  • crouch before,
  • bear the palm,
  • stride,
  • stinger,
  • slog,
  • outpoint,
  • mould,
  • discomfit,
  • paddle,
  • skosh,
  • syllable,
  • fall,
  • hors de combat,
  • quiet,
  • rapidity,
  • bring down,
  • fix,
  • outclass,
  • wheedle,
  • override,
  • DO,
  • Efform,
  • spark,
  • pet,
  • drudgery,
  • swinge,
  • puny,
  • hoot,
  • outrun,
  • inferior,
  • soak,
  • limp,
  • gravel,
  • dust,
  • clap,
  • cane,
  • cream,
  • riff,
  • Beslubber,
  • carry the day,
  • boggle,
  • addle,
  • convulse,
  • spot,
  • light touch,
  • calculate,
  • essay,
  • topple,
  • shot,
  • steamroller,
  • dispatch,
  • make uniform,
  • knead,
  • work on,
  • effort,
  • influence,
  • knockout punch,
  • paltry,
  • ignite,
  • iota,
  • swallow the pill,
  • bespatter,
  • outwit,
  • curry,
  • spatter,
  • submit,
  • fig,
  • check,
  • overreach,
  • give a dressing-down,
  • hammer out,
  • association,
  • vamp,
  • Taction,
  • hammer,
  • sculpture,
  • settle,
  • gormandize,
  • put to work,
  • swish,
  • smite,
  • Overset,
  • Beslaver,
  • daze,
  • past,
  • gnaw,
  • donkeywork,
  • discuss,
  • treadmill,
  • prevail,
  • unimportant,
  • interpret,
  • falter,
  • outmaneuver,
  • snub,
  • overlap,
  • jabbing,
  • act,
  • small,
  • toss,
  • smell,
  • jactitate,
  • mumble,
  • lagger,
  • carrier bag,
  • outshine,
  • swiftness,
  • comb,
  • exiguous,
  • lay on,
  • Beplaster,
  • industry,
  • ruin,
  • clump,
  • chop,
  • poking,
  • cog,
  • model,
  • hell-for-leather,
  • set down,
  • pervasive,
  • glimmer,
  • deem,
  • idea,
  • spice,
  • thrust,
  • soupcon,
  • shred,
  • squash,
  • rib roast,
  • pitch into,
  • polish off,
  • mystify,
  • negligible,
  • particle,
  • tincture,
  • baste,
  • plunk,
  • handiwork,
  • Scut Work,
  • band,
  • slam,
  • slaver,
  • stop,
  • licking,
  • be employed,
  • curry favor with,
  • compute,
  • cypher,
  • kill,
  • Overmatch,
  • fashion,
  • sack,
  • mangle,
  • confound,
  • clear,
  • flick,
  • cuff,
  • put,
  • pelt,
  • batter,
  • scintilla,
  • sink,
  • act upon,
  • ray,
  • haymaker,
  • eat humble pie,
  • pick,
  • paper bag,
  • amaze,
  • swosh,
  • smash,
  • tactility,
  • eat dirt,
  • stamp,
  • handwork,
  • travail,
  • stab,
  • fare,
  • cranch,
  • sweat,
  • wash,
  • Titubate,
  • slash,
  • sup,
  • swallow,
  • flail,
  • stump,
  • slap the face,
  • flagellate,
  • inconsiderable,
  • Roughhew,
  • shadow,
  • modicum,
  • warm,
  • flounder,
  • process,
  • sour,
  • do work,
  • skunk,
  • squat,
  • despatch,
  • larrup,
  • sneak,
  • switch,
  • whale,
  • function,
  • interpolation,
  • task,
  • mold,
  • construct,
  • floor,
  • cob,
  • slurp,
  • Beans,
  • shape,
  • trailer,
  • wipe out,
  • belabor,
  • cipher,
  • smidgen,
  • lap against,
  • do in,
  • put to flight,
  • tongued,
  • velocity,
  • damn,
  • cower,
  • bastinado,
  • exterminate,
  • get down,
  • dumbfound,
  • moil,
  • shy,
  • lingual,
  • thresh,
  • thresh about,
  • stifle,
  • pander to,
  • thrusting,
  • lam,
  • beat off,
  • sluggard,
  • triumph,
  • gloss,
  • spadework,
  • lambast,
  • collogue,
  • Gloze,
  • come,
  • ounce,
  • circle,
  • tentative,
  • try,
  • succumb,
  • outsail,
  • birch,
  • run aground,
  • lay about one,
  • coquet,
  • fillip,
  • hold down,
  • sponge up,
  • petty,
  • go to pot,
  • halt,
  • tan,
  • Fustigate,
  • travel,
  • diddly,
  • slaughter,
  • tan one's hide,
  • chisel,
  • outflank,
  • fag,
  • end,
  • cut,
  • crouch,
  • bullet,
  • nibble,
  • fatigue,
  • lap up,
  • form,
  • groom,
  • go,
  • tad,
  • crumb,
  • eradicate,
  • towel,
  • intimation,
  • crack,
  • fine,
  • legs,
  • leather,
  • get the best of,
  • feed,
  • douse,
  • drubbing,
  • tattoo,
  • look,
  • puncher,
  • fling,
  • annihilate,
  • figure,
  • laggard,
  • battle with,
  • mouth,
  • liquidate,
  • ravage,
  • darn,
  • bring,
  • hack,
  • bite the dust,
  • buffet,
  • undertaking,
  • make for,
  • wreak,
  • dram,
  • overbear,
  • undo,
  • rate,
  • craven,
  • outfight,
  • thwart,
  • grind,
  • dirty work,
  • lather,
  • garget,
  • thud,
  • pigeon berry,
  • jab,
  • muddle,
  • break one's back,
  • devastate,
  • doodley-squat,
  • elaborate,
  • break,
  • lap covering,
  • lambency,
  • nip,
  • pull,
  • cultivate,
  • driblet,
  • turn,
  • eliminate,
  • go someone one better,
  • slam dance,
  • assay,
  • founder,
  • exploit,
  • rat race,
  • whoop,
  • ride roughshod over,
  • upend,
  • whit,
  • clout,
  • soak up,
  • box,
  • splash,
  • little,
  • whirl,
  • fawn,
  • swoosh,
  • fall to,
  • chew,
  • manual labor,
  • circuit,
  • Yerk,
  • Glaver,
  • take down,
  • trample,
  • make,
  • wipe,
  • work up,
  • beaten,
  • forge,
  • outvote,
  • earwig,
  • sponge,
  • be defeated,
  • peg,
  • gambit,
  • reckon,
  • flatter,
  • sketch,
  • nonplus,
  • puzzle,
  • thought,
  • kindle,
  • career,
  • lose the day,
  • pulverize,
  • dress,
  • trivial,
  • gleam,
  • stagger,
  • jacket,
  • tuck in,
  • exercise,
  • insignificant,
  • take the cake,
  • puff,
  • scoke,
  • block out,
  • flicker,
  • smattering,
  • suspicion,
  • massacre,
  • come to grief,
  • drone,
  • go down,
  • plump,
  • dress down,
  • skim,
  • take,
  • scourge,
  • obliterate,
  • experiment,
  • drown,
  • offer,
  • win over,
  • murder,
  • hook,
  • progress,
  • outgeneral,
  • labour,
  • dawdler,
  • operate,
  • bamboozle,
  • continental,
  • minor,
  • tree,
  • eat.

Paraphrases for Lick:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Nota.
  • Interjection
    suck.
  • Verb, base form
    suck.

Antonyms for Lick:

• n.

  • light touch; little amount
    glob, lot.
  • Other antonyms:
    hunk, gobs, embarrassment, pile, overflow, volume, plenty, overkill, slab, overabundance, quantity, deal, much, superfluity, surplus, lump, excess, overage, superabundance, oversupply, surfeit, bonanza, abundance, heaps, overmuch, loads.

• v.

  • defeat, sometimes by hitting
    give up, retreat, fail, fall behind, forfeit, help, give in, yield, surrender.
  • play over with fire
    stay, extinguish, remain, put out, be still.
  • touch with tongue
    lose.

Homophones for Lick:

• leechee, loos, lug, leigh, lilylike, laicise, leash, lxxii, Lugh, lysis, lisu, lass, lxxx, locus, luggage, lasix, lachesis, Louis Ix, lack, luxe, logos, loggia, lachaise, lag, loch, loquacious, lewisia, lough, loasaceae, lichi, lxxxii, lose, lochia, lackey, leaky, lycia, lake keuka, league, loess, lock, legacy, Louis X, liza, lockjaw, lac, lyssa, Leo Esaki, liege, lac wax, lycosa, laws, losses, loki, likewise, leggy, llullaillaco, log, Louis Agassiz, lhasa, Lusaka, lassa, Louis Xii, Lego, leacock, lxx, laius, low-key, loach, loloish, luscious, lock away, like, Lech, lxi, leo xiii, leuciscus, loge, lucky, Louis XI, laos, liaise, lie awake, loss, Louis I, Louis Xiii, logo, laicize, leek, look, leech, lossy, lugosi, lease, lichee, lascaux, louse, lasso, lxxiii, loligo, laugh away, lucy, lychee, Liliaceae, lousy, leach, lucas, Leo X, lx, lees, lexis, lek, lakh, log z's, lawless, lxxxi, lao-zi, leg, lxii, loose, lallygag, luge, liliaceous, laze, leakage, lax, lycee, louis, luce, liliales, lygus, lace, lazio, laic, lash, loco, louche, logic, lush, lux, logy, lacy, loxia, luke, locke, lessee, Lake Cayuga, lox, Louis Iii, Louis Ii, lockage, lassie, lechwe, lake, lagos, less, loasa, look away, leakey, lilac, luik, lxxi, legs, lollygag, lewis, leak, lxxxiii, leo ix, luck, lxiii, lazy, laugh.

Hyponym for Lick:

• n.

  • act
    touch, touching.
  • object
    sediment, deposit.