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livor

Syllables: li·vorUK/ˈlaɪvɔː/US/ˈlaɪvɔəɹ/

livor noun: skin discoloration, as from a bruise, or occurring after death.

Noun

livor (countable and uncountable, plural livors)

  1. Skin discoloration, as from a bruise, or occurring after death.
  2. (obsolete) Malice.
    • To see a man [...] magnify his friend unworthy with hyperbolical elogiums; his enemy, albeit a good man, to vilify and disgrace him, yea, all his actions, with the utmost livor and malice can invent.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC

livor meaning in Tamil

livor in Tamil

நிறமாற்றம், பிணதோல் நிற மாற்றம், வண்ண மாற்றம்

Forms of livor

plurallivors

Origin of livor

Borrowed from Latin līvor.

Questions about livor

What does livor mean?
Livor means skin discoloration, as from a bruise, or occurring after death.
What is livor in Tamil?
Livor in Tamil is நிறமாற்றம், பிணதோல் நிற மாற்றம், வண்ண மாற்றம். See Livor meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is livor?
Livor is a noun.
How do you pronounce livor?
Livor is pronounced /ˈlaɪvɔː/ (UK).
What is the plural of livor?
The plural of livor is livors.

Words near livor in the dictionary

  1. Livolsi
  2. Livolsis
  3. Livonia
  4. Livonian
  5. Livonians
  6. livor
  7. livor mortis
  8. Livornian
  9. Livornians
  10. Livorno
  11. livors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: livor (page history and authors); livor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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