Licking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LICKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• pass the tongue over (something) in order to taste, moisten, or clean it
• (of a flame, wave, or breeze) move lightly and quickly like a tongue
• overcome (a person or problem) decisively
• beat or thrash (someone)
• cut or knock someone or something down
NOUN:
• a thrashing or beating
• an act of licking something with the tongue
• a quick movement of flame, water, etc.
• a light coating or quick application of something, especially paint
• an extremely small amount of something abstract
• a short phrase or solo in jazz or popular music
• a smart blow
• A lapping with the tongue.
• A flogging or castigation.
• an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
• the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
• beating
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to pass the tongue over the surface of

Words related to LICKING

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How to use LICKING in a sentence

• Its companion now came forth and stood over the tortured creature, licking its sores till it expired.
• With a muffled cry, such as a human being might give, she bent over the kitten licking its wounds and moaning.
• The breaking up of the ice, on the Licking and Ohio, formed a most striking spectacle.
• Matilda spent the night licking herself clean in the detention cell.
• Then it came out that Bruce was in training, and it was said that he was putting himself in condition to give Merriwell the worst licking of his life.
• Too often has the sorry spectacle been seen of greatness and goodness going down before the poisonous tongues and the licking jaws.
• In the night I was roused by the beat of rain, and I crawled from hole to hole, lapping up the rain or licking it from the rocks.
• The two divisions met at the mouth of the Licking, where Clark took supreme command.
• Even the old cow follows him around the meadow, and the other day I saw her licking his hand, just as a dog would.
• He had cut his forehead against the bars of the big kennel, and when he came to himself one of the hounds was licking his face through the grating.
• The dog, too, by rubbing itself against him, and licking his face, enabled him, by a last effort, to recollect himself, so as to have a glimmering perception of his situation.
• After licking my face in gratitude he sat back on his haunches and waited for me to do something amusing.
• He came to a stop and stared at it, licking his lips.
• Also he saw the lead dog licking the face of the man who lay on the trail.
• His sharp claws were driven into the bark, and he was calmly licking his dripping fur.
• It came with a roar, tossing the licking flames into a wild chaos of protest.
• A cat, squatting on the cream jars, was licking them over.
• It was very particular in the performance of its toilet, cleaning and licking its fur.
• He desired to express in the name of the future city the fact that it was situated opposite the mouth of the Licking River.
• He had a sheet of paper half filled with items, and was licking his pencil and looking for more.
• Our friend Ferdinand, cool and self-possessed, accepted her tenderness, and breathed the atmosphere with the quiet enjoyment of a tiger licking the blood that dyes his throat.
• The terrier just alluded to, when thus scratched with a stick, will sometimes show her delight by another habitual movement, namely, by licking the air as if it were my hand.
• Many times had the poor creatures lain down, licking their paws in anguish.
• He went for me the very first day of the term, and when I fought back, he gave me such a licking that I could hardly walk into the schoolroom afterwards.
• I knew that Beautiful Dog was licking his wounds after defeat, and the Black cats, sedate and mild-mannered, were licking their paws after victory.
• Bear could see red flames licking up to the tops of the trees.

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