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viselike

viselike adjective: extremely strong or tight, like the grip of a vise.

Adjective

viselike (comparative more viselike, superlative most viselike)

  1. Extremely strong or tight, like the grip of a vise.
    • What they share, apart from their Texas roots, is a viselike grasp of hard-bop fundamentals and an easy affinity for funk.2009 January 9, Nate Chinen, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times

Forms of viselike

comparativemore viselike
superlativemost viselike
alternative formvicelike

Origin of viselike

From vise + -like.

Questions about viselike

What does viselike mean?
Viselike means extremely strong or tight, like the grip of a vise.
What part of speech is viselike?
Viselike is an adjective.

Words near viselike in the dictionary

  1. Visean
  2. vised
  3. Visegrád
  4. viseing
  5. viseite
  6. viselike
  7. viseman
  8. viseme
  9. visemen
  10. visemes
  11. visemic

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