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Larking
- verb - play boisterously;
Larning
- verb - gain knowledge or skills; "She learned dancing from her sister"; "I learned Sanskrit"; "Children acquire language at an amazing rate"
Lashing
- verb - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
- beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
- bind with a rope, chain, or cord; "lash the horse"
- lash or flick about sharply; "The lion lashed its tail"
- rope that is used for fastening something to something else; "the boats were held together by lashings"
- strike as if by whipping; "The curtain whipped her face"
- violently urging on by whipping or flogging; "looked at the lashing riders"
Lasting
- verb - continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"
- continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place; "permanent secretary to the president"; "permanent address"; "literature of permanent value"
- existing for a long time; "hopes for a durable peace"; "a long-lasting friendship"
- lasting a long time without change; "a lasting relationship"
- persist for a specified period of time; "The bad weather lasted for three days"
- retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes"
Lathing
- - The act or process of covering with laths.
Lauding
- verb - praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking"
Leading
- verb -
- be ahead of others; be the first;
- be conducive to; "The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing"
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere; "Run the wire behind the cabinet"
- cause to undertake a certain action; "Her greed led her to forge the checks"
- going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way; "we rode in the leading car"; "the leading edge of technology"
- greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement; "our greatest statesmen"; "the country's leading poet"; "a preeminent archeologist"
- have as a result or residue; "The water left a mark on the silk dress"; "Her blood left a stain on the napkin"
- having the leading position or higher score in a contest; "he is ahead by a pawn"; "the leading team in the pennant race"
- indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring r
Leafing
- verb - (botany) the process of forming leaves
- look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"
- produce leaves, of plants
- turn over pages; "leaf through a book"; "leaf a manuscript"
Leaking
- verb - be leaked; "The news leaked out despite his secrecy"
- enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure; "Water leaked out of the can into the backpack"; "Gas leaked into the basement"
- have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out; "The container leaked gasoline"; "the roof leaks badly"
- tell anonymously; "The news were leaked to the paper"
Leaning
- verb - a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration"
- an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"
- cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the wall"
- cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree"
- departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted"
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"
- rely on for support; "We can lean on this man"
- the act of deviating from a vertical position
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"
- to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over