| liaise | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, intermediate, mediate |
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| libel | (verb) print slanderous statements against | - |
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| liberalise | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalize |
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| (verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalize |
| liberalize | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalise |
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| (verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalise |
| liberate | (verb) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition | Synonyms: free, release |
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| (verb) grant freedom to | Synonyms: set free |
| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: emancipate |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, loose, release, unloose, unloosen |
| librate | (verb) vibrate before coming to a total rest | - |
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| (verb) determine the weight of | Synonyms: weigh |
| licence | (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, license |
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| license | (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, licence |
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| lick | (verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | Synonyms: figure out, puzzle out, solve, work, work out |
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| (verb) take up with the tongue | Synonyms: lap, lap up |
| (verb) pass the tongue over | Synonyms: lap |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, thrash |
| lie | (verb) tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive | - |
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| (verb) be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position | - |
| (verb) assume a reclining position | Synonyms: lie down |
| (verb) be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position | - |
| (verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: consist, dwell, lie in |
| (verb) have a place in relation to something else | Synonyms: rest |
| (verb) be and remain in a particular state or condition | - |
| lifehack | (verb) make one's day-to-day activities more efficient | - |
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| lift | (verb) perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face | Synonyms: face-lift |
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| (verb) remove from a surface | - |
| (verb) put an end to | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) remove (hair) by scalping | - |
| (verb) rise upward, as from pressure or moisture | - |
| (verb) invigorate or heighten | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: elevate, raise |
| (verb) remove from a seedbed or from a nursery | - |
| (verb) take off or away by decreasing | - |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| (verb) call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs | - |
| (verb) make audible | - |
| (verb) take hold of something and move it to a different location | - |
| (verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: hoist, wind |
| (verb) take (root crops) out of the ground | - |
| (verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: airlift |
| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, elevate, get up, raise |
| (verb) move upwards | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) move upward | Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, move up, rise, uprise |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: plagiarise, plagiarize |
| (verb) pay off (a mortgage) | - |
| (verb) take illegally | Synonyms: rustle |
| (verb) rise up | Synonyms: rear, rise |
| ligate | (verb) bind with a bandage or ligature | - |
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| (verb) bind chemically | - |
| (verb) join letters in a ligature when writing | - |
| light | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illuminate, illumine, light up |
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| (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: fire, ignite |
| (verb) begin to smoke | Synonyms: fire up, light up |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, perch |
| (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: dismount, get down, get off, unhorse |
| (verb) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed | Synonyms: fall |
| (verb) cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat | Synonyms: ignite |
| lighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: brighten, lighten up |
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| (verb) become lighter | Synonyms: lighten up |
| (verb) alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive | Synonyms: relieve |
| (verb) become more cheerful | Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up |
| (verb) reduce the weight on; make lighter | - |
| (verb) make more cheerful | Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up |
| lighter | (verb) transport in a flatbottom boat | - |
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| lignify | (verb) convert into wood or cause to become woody | - |
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| like | (verb) feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard | - |
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| (verb) to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something | Synonyms: care, wish |
| (verb) be fond of | - |
| (verb) find enjoyable or agreeable | - |
| (verb) want to have | - |
| liken | (verb) consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous | Synonyms: compare, equate |
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| lilt | (verb) articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way | - |
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| limber | (verb) cause to become limber | - |
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| (verb) attach the limber | Synonyms: limber up |
| lime | (verb) cover with lime so as to induce growth | - |
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| (verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds | Synonyms: birdlime |
| limit | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: circumscribe, confine to |
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| (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, restrict, throttle, trammel |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, set, specify |
| limn | (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: depict, portray |
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| (verb) trace the shape of | Synonyms: delineate, outline |
| limp | (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hitch, hobble |
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| (verb) proceed slowly or with difficulty | - |
| line | (verb) fill plentifully | - |
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| (verb) reinforce with fabric | - |
| (verb) cover the interior of | - |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, describe, draw, trace |
| (verb) mark with lines | - |
| (verb) be in line with; form a line along | Synonyms: run along |
| linearise | (verb) make linear or get into a linear form | Synonyms: linearize |
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| linearize | (verb) make linear or get into a linear form | Synonyms: linearise |
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| linger | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: dawdle |
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| (verb) leave slowly and hesitantly | Synonyms: tarry |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: hover |
| (verb) remain present although waning or gradually dying | - |
| link | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, connect, link up, relate, tie in |
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| (verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: connect, link up, tie |
| (verb) link with or as with a yoke | Synonyms: yoke |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: connect, join, link up, unite |
| lionise | (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: celebrate, lionize |
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| lionize | (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: celebrate, lionise |
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| lipread | (verb) interpret by lipreading; of deaf people | Synonyms: lip-read, speech-read |
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| lipstick | (verb) apply lipstick to | - |
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| (verb) form by tracing with lipstick | - |
| liquefy | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquify |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquidise, liquidize, liquify |
| (verb) become liquid | - |
| liquidate | (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, neutralise, neutralize, waste |
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| (verb) eliminate by paying off (debts) | Synonyms: pay off |
| (verb) convert into cash | - |
| (verb) settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off | - |
| liquidise | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidize, liquify |
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| liquidize | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquify |
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| (verb) sell or get rid of all one's merchandise | Synonyms: sell out, sell up |
| liquify | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquefy |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquidize |
| lisp | (verb) speak with a lisp | - |
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| list | (verb) give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of | Synonyms: name |
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| (verb) enumerate | Synonyms: number |
| (verb) tilt to one side | Synonyms: heel |
| (verb) cause to lean to the side | Synonyms: lean |
| (verb) include in a list | - |
| listen | (verb) hear with intention | - |
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| (verb) listen and pay attention | Synonyms: hear, take heed |
| (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, mind |
| literalise | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalize |
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| literalize | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalise |
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| lithograph | (verb) make by lithography | - |
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| litigate | (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, process, sue |
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| (verb) engage in legal proceedings | - |
| litter | (verb) give birth to a litter of animals | - |
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| (verb) make a place messy by strewing garbage around | - |
| (verb) strew | - |
| live | (verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | Synonyms: experience, know |
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| (verb) have life, be alive | Synonyms: be |
| (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, subsist, survive |
| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live on, survive |
| (verb) lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style | - |
| (verb) pursue a positive and satisfying existence | - |
| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, populate |
| liven | (verb) make lively | Synonyms: animate, enliven, invigorate, liven up |
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