lithe
suomi-englanti sanakirjalithe englannista suomeksi
notkea, vetreä
lithe englanniksi
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Slim but not skinny.
(RQ:Vance Outsider)
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Capable of being easily bent; flexible.
1861, Wendell Holmes, Sr.|Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Venner|Elsie Venner, page 125
- … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
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(quote-journal) light and lithe, while the 2016 Indigeno from Ancarani in Emilia-Romagna, made of trebbiano, was taut and earthy.
To become calm.
To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.
(quote-text)|title=Physic from Heaven
{{quote-text|en|year=1642|author=Daniel Rogers|title=Naaman the Syrian: His Disease and Cure
To listen to, hearken to.
{{quote-text|en|year=1932|author=Lewis Grassic Gibbon|title=Sunset Song
to thicken (gravy, etc.)
{{quote-book|en|year=1902|author=Joseph Wright|title=The English Dialect Dictionary|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=624
{{quote-book|en|year=1933|editor=C.T. Onions|title=The Oxford English Dictionary|publisher=Clarendon Press|page=344
1994, Arnold Kellett, ''The English Dialect Dictionary'', Smith Settle, page 105
- lithe 'to thicken soups, sauces, etc.'
{{quote-book|en|year=1994|author=Clive Upton; David Parry; J.D.A. Widdowson|title=Survey of English Dialects: The Dictionary and Grammar|publisher=Croom Helm
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