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lisse

lisse verb: to relieve, mitigate, assuage (pain etc.).

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To relieve, mitigate, assuage (pain etc.).

Noun

lisse (countable and uncountable, plural lisses)

  1. A fine sheer fabric of silk or cotton used in women's neckwear and in ruching.
  2. In tapestry, the threads of the warp taken together.

Proper noun capitalized: Lisse

Lisse

  1. A village and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.

Forms of lisse

Verb
third-person singular presentlisses
present participlelissing
past participlelissed
pastlissed
Noun
plurallisses

Origin of lisse

Inherited from Old English līssian.

From French lisse, from Latin licium.

Borrowed from Dutch Lisse.

Questions about lisse

What does lisse mean?
Lisse means to relieve, mitigate, assuage (pain etc.).
What part of speech is lisse?
Lisse can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of lisse?
The past tense of lisse is lissed.

Words near lisse in the dictionary

  1. lissamine
  2. lissamines
  3. lissamphibian
  4. lissamphibians
  5. Lissauer
  6. lisse
  7. lissed
  8. Lisselton
  9. lissen
  10. lissencephalic
  11. lissencephalous

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