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LIVID

\lˈɪvɪd], \lˈɪvɪd], \l_ˈɪ_v_ɪ_d]\

Definitions of LIVID

2006 - WordNet 3.0
2011 - English Dictionary Database
2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"
discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; "beaten black and blue"; "livid bruises"
furiously angry; "willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid"

2006 - WordNet 3.0
By Princeton University

discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; "beaten black and blue"; "livid bruises"
(informal) furiously angry; "willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid"

2011 - English Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

Black and blue; discolored as by a blow; as, a livid scar; ashy pale.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

1. Discolored from a contusion, black and blue. 2. Cyanotic; ashen.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

Deep blue discoloration.

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
By William R. Warner

Black and blue: of a lead color: discolored.
LIVIDNESS.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

LIVIDNESS.
Black and blue, as bruised flesh; lead colored; ashy pale, as the lips.

1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
By James Champlin Fernald

Of a leaden or purplish color.

1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman

Black and blue; of a lead colour; discoloured.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

Discoloured in the flesh, as from a blow; black and blue; of a lead colour.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.

Of a bluish color; discolored by a bruise. [Fr., Lat.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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