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  • English Word Lifeblood Definition The blood necessary to life; vital blood.
  • English Word Lifeblood Definition Fig.: That which gives strength and energy.
  • English Word Lifeboat Definition A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.
  • English Word Lifeful Definition Full of vitality.
  • English Word Lifehold Definition Land held by a life estate.
  • English Word Lifeless Definition Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story.
  • English Word Lifelike Definition Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait.
  • English Word Lifelong Definition Lasting or continuing through life.
  • English Word Lifely Definition In a lifelike manner.
  • English Word Lifemate Definition Companion for life.
  • English Word Lifen Definition To enliven.
  • English Word Lifesome Definition Animated; sprightly.
  • English Word Lifespring Definition Spring or source of life.
  • English Word Lifestring Definition A nerve, or string, that is imagined to be essential to life.
  • English Word Lifetime Definition The time that life continues.
  • English Word Liflode Definition Livelihood.
  • English Word Lift Definition The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
  • English Word Lift Definition To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.
  • English Word Lift Definition To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
  • English Word Lift Definition To bear; to support.
  • English Word Lift Definition To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
  • English Word Lift Definition To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
  • English Word Lift Definition To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
  • English Word Lift Definition To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
  • English Word Lift Definition To live by theft.
  • English Word Lift Definition Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
  • English Word Lift Definition The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
  • English Word Lift Definition Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
  • English Word Lift Definition That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
  • English Word Lift Definition A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.