Definitions for lung

lung lung

Spelling: [luhng]
IPA: /lʌŋ/

Lung is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in lung (glnu).

Definitions for lung

noun

  1. either of the two saclike respiratory organs in the thorax of humans and the higher vertebrates.
  2. an analogous organ in certain invertebrates, as arachnids or terrestrial gastropods.

Idioms

  1. at the top of one's lungs, as loudly as possible; with full voice:

Origin of lung

before 1000; Middle English lungen, Old English; cognate with German Lunge; akin to light2, lights

Examples for lung

Of the evening his father died of lung cancer, he said, “I cannot possibly describe the feelings of love and peace I experienced.”

The ribs had been cut across, and some portion of the heart or lung seemed to protrude.

Eight days later their bassist, Gerard Smith, passed away from lung cancer.

There was a meeting, and Garfield was shot through the lung.

While casual exercisers might not notice any difference in lung capacity, intense gym-goers might feel the effects of an e-cig.

The lung was not yet attacked, but the bronchial tubes were affected.

In 1993 a doctor described the Lazarus phenomenon in a seventy-five-year-old man with a lung hemorrhage.

He had ample girth of chest at the cinches, where lung capacity is best measured.

Start slicing every lung in this place and look for those crystals.

The bullet entered the left side of his chest, hit his heart and settled in his lung.

Word Value for lung
Scrable

5

Words with friends

9

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