liniment
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7.7
- noun
- /ˈlɪnɪmənt/
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linimento
- Before the game, he rubbed liniment into his legs to prevent injury.
- horse liniment
- homemade liniment
- liniment cream
I got salves, creams, ointments, liniments, ungens, poultices.
- I got salves, creams, ointments, liniments, ungens, poultices.
Examples
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Braided leather reins crossed the wall like spiderwebs, and shelves were stacked with spare horseshoes and jars of liniment.
Fiction book (2001) -
I went in the back and I got some Watkins Liniment.
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- All right, get me the liniment, Jess.
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- Give me the liniment, Jess.
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- I'll get some liniment.
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I used to rub liniment on that shoulder every night.
Fiction book (1997) -
Late that evening, while applying a liniment to my mother's sore leg, I asked her if she had ever seen the count up close.
Fiction book (1997) -
I've got to give your dad a liniment rubdown.
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I took many hot baths and rubbed liniment all over me.
Academic text (1997) -
I have taken a hot bath and completed my regimen of stretching and rubbing eucalyptus liniment into my shoulders, arms, and legs.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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9.9
A liquid you put on the skin to relieve muscle pain or stiffness
A cream you put on the skin that makes a warm feeling to ease pain in muscles or joints
How Medicinal
Surface Forms
Morphology
liniment = lin + ment
Although formed with the productive noun-forming suffix '-ment', the root 'lin-' is not a recognizable English base for learners, so the meaning cannot be derived from the components.
Etymology
Liniment comes from the Latin linimentum, from linere meaning 'to smear'. So a liniment is a liquid you rub or smear on the skin to ease muscle pain.