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Libeling
- verb - print slanderous statements against; "The newspaper was accused of libeling him"
Ligating
- verb - bind chemically; "The enzyme ligated"
- bind with a bandage or ligature; "ligate the artery"
- join letters in a ligature when writing
Lighting
- verb - alight from (a horse)
- apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film
- begin to smoke; "After the meal, some of the diners lit up"
- cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat; "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter"; "Light a cigarette"
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"
- having abundant light or illumination; "they played as long as it was light"; "as long as the lighting was good"
- make lighter or brighter; "This lamp lightens the room a bit"
- the act of setting something on fire
- the craft of providing artificial light; "an interior decorator must understand lighting"
- to come to rest, settle; "Misfortune lighted upon him"
Likening
- verb - consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous; "We can compare the Han dynasty to the Romans"; "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed"
- the act of comparing similarities
Limiting
- verb - decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
- place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
- restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
- restricting the scope or freedom of action
- strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase; "the restrictive clause in `Each made a list of the books that had influenced him' limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause"
- the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase
Livering
- - A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork.
Loathing
- verb - find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"
- Hate
- hate coupled with disgust
Lobbying
- verb - detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors
Locating
- verb - a determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target"
- assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"
- determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property"
- discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing"
- Find
- take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"
- the act of putting something in a certain place