Definitions for liver

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IPA: /ˈlɪv ər/

Liver is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in liver (eilrv).

Definitions for liver

noun

1. Anatomy. a large, reddish-brown, glandular organ located in the upper right side of the abdominal cavity, divided by fissures into five lobes and functioning in the secretion of bile and various metabolic processes.
2. an organ in other animals similar to the human liver, often used as food.
3. a diseased condition of the liver; biliousness:
4. a reddish-brown color.
5. a rubberlike, irreversible thickening suspension occurring in paint, ink, etc., due to a chemical reaction between a colloidal pigment and a vehicle or as a result of polymerization of the vehicle.
6. a person who lives in a manner specified:
7. a dweller or resident; inhabitant.

Idioms

1. live one, Slang. a person who spends money readily. a person easily imposed upon or made the dupe of others.

adverb

1. (of a radio or television program) at the moment of its happening or being performed; not on tape or by prerecording:

adjective

1. of the color of liver.
2. comparative of live2 .
3. being alive; living; alive:
4. of, relating to, or during the life of a living being:
5. characterized by or indicating the presence of living creatures:
6. Informal. (of a person) energetic; alert; lively:
7. full of life, energy or activity:
8. burning or glowing:
9. having resilience or bounce:
10. being in play, as a baseball or football.
11. loaded or unexploded, as a cartridge or shell:
12. made up of actual persons:
13. (of a radio or television program) broadcast while happening or being performed; not prerecorded or taped:
14. being highly resonant or reverberant, as an auditorium or concert hall.
15. vivid or bright, as color.
16. of current interest or importance, as a question or issue; controversial; unsettled.
17. moving or imparting motion; powered:
18. still in use, or to be used, as type set up or copy for printing.
19. Also, alive. Electricity. electrically connected to a source of potential difference, or electrically charged so as to have a potential different from that of earth:

verb (used without object)

1. (of paint, ink, etc.) to undergo irreversible thickening.

Origin of liver

before 900; Middle English; Old English lifer, cognate with Dutch lever, German Leber, Old Norse lifr; perhaps akin to Greek liparós fat

Examples for liver

Eggs, he says, are a good source of cysteine, an amino acid that helps the liver break down alcohol faster.

After this Tobias advanced, embraced his father, and then rubbed his eyes with the skate's liver.

Family members say he developed also liver cancer after his capture.

As digesting food passes through the small intestine, it mixes with chemicals from the liver, and nutrients are absorbed.

Separate dishes are made of the head, heart, liver, and sweet-bread.

He became delirious, his heartbeat grew ragged, his blood teemed with the virus, and his lungs, liver and kidneys began to fail.

Then stab her to death and bring me back her lungs and liver as proof of your deed.

Some object to liver, therefore the use of it is a matter of taste.

He was dying of inflammation of the liver, contracted in Senegal.

It cannot be, for Mr. Purgon says that it is my liver which is out of order.