lijk — meaning in English

English meaning

• corpse noun A dead body, usually of a person.
• leech noun A blood-sucking worm that lives in water, sometimes used medicinally.
• Ly name A Vietnamese surname.

Senses

lijk is used for these senses in English:

• ible An adjective suffix, now usually in a passive sense; forms adjectives meaning "able to be", "relevant or suitable to, in accordance with", or expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense.
• ly Used to form adjectives from nouns, the adjectives having the sense of "behaving like, or having a nature typical of what is denoted by the noun" Similar in meaning to -like but most often paired with animate nouns.
• ly Used to form adverbs from adjectives and nouns.
• corpse The dead body of any animal with flesh; the dead body of a vertebrate; a carcass.

corpse — full definition

1. noun A dead body, usually of a person.
2. verb To burst into uncontrollable laughter while performing, breaking character.

leech — full definition

1. noun A blood-sucking worm that lives in water, sometimes used medicinally.
2. noun A person who takes advantage of others without giving anything back.
3. verb To drain something, such as money or resources, without contributing in return.

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