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liss

liss noun: relief; ease; abatement; cessation; release.

Noun (1)

liss (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Relief; ease; abatement; cessation; release.
  2. (obsolete) Comfort; happiness.
  3. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A respite from pain.

Verb

liss (third-person singular simple present lisses, present participle lissing, simple past and past participle lissed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To ease; lighten; relieve; abate.
  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To cease; stop.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Liss

Liss

  1. A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7727).

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Liss

Liss

  1. A surname from German.

Noun (2) capitalized: LISS

LISS (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of low-intensity steady state: a form of exercise that uses prolonged periods of effort at a steady pace, such as jogging.
    Antonyms:
    HIIT, HIT

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Forms of liss

third-person singular presentlisses
present participlelissing
past participlelissed
pastlissed

Origin of liss

From Middle English lis, lisse, lysse, from Old English liss, līs, līþs (“grace, favor, love, kindness, mercy, joy, peace, rest, remission, forgiveness, alleviation, salvation”), from Proto-Germanic *linþisjō (“rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *lent- (“bendsome, resilient”). Cognate with Danish lise (“solace, relief”), Swedish lisa (“solace, relief”). Related to Old English līþe (“lithe, soft, gentle, meek, mild, serene, benign, gracious, pleasant, sweet”). See lithe.

From Middle English lissen, lyssen, from Old English lissan (“to subdue”), from Old English liss. Cognate with Swedish lisa (“to soften, weaken”). See above.

A Germanized or Americanized form of Lis, from Polish lis (“fox”), Ukrainian лис (lys, “fox”), and related languages.

Questions about liss

What does liss mean?
Liss means relief; ease; abatement; cessation; release.
What part of speech is liss?
Liss can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.

Words near liss in the dictionary

  1. lispro
  2. lisps
  3. lispund
  4. lispunds
  5. lispy
  6. liss
  7. Lissack
  8. Lissajous
  9. Lissajous curve
  10. Lissajous curves
  11. Lissajous figure

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