She covers her arms and legs with lye every day, burning and itching and thinking "I'm gonna look so good."
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Lye
//laɪ//
Synonyms for "lye" (5 found)
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Related words (2)
Noun(1 words)
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91 translations across 47 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- alisivë noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- vrer noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ῥύμμα noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Armenian
1 entries- մոխրաջուր noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Aromanian
2 entries- alisivã noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- alsivã noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Asturian
1 entries- llexía noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Bulgarian
1 entries- лу́га noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Catalan
2 entries- lleixiu noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- sosa càustica noun (potassium or sodium hydroxide)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 灰水 noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- 灰汁 noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Czech
3 entries- hydroxid draselný noun (potassium or sodium hydroxide)
- hydroxid sodný noun (potassium or sodium hydroxide)
- louh noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Danish
1 entries- lud noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Dutch
4 entries- bijtende soda noun (potassium or sodium hydroxide)
- caustic soda noun (potassium or sodium hydroxide)
- caustische soda noun (potassium or sodium hydroxide)
- loog noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Esperanto
1 entries- alkala solvaĵo noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Estonian
1 entries- leelis noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Finnish
1 entries- lipeä noun (caustic alkaline solution)
French
4 entries- hydroxyde de sodium noun (potassium or sodium hydroxide)
- potasse noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- potasse caustique noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- soude noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Galician
4 entries- bogada noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- cenrada noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- decoada noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- lixivia noun (caustic alkaline solution)
German
3 entries- Lauge noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- kaustisches Soda noun (potassium or sodium hydroxide)
- Ätznatron noun (potassium or sodium hydroxide)
Greek
1 entries- αλισίβα noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Hungarian
1 entries- lúg noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Icelandic
1 entries- lútur noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Indonesian
1 entries- lindi noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Irish
1 entries- buac noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Italian
4 entries- cenerata noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- idrossido di sodio noun (potassium or sodium hydroxide)
- liscivia noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- ranno noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Japanese
2 entries- あく noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- 灰汁 noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Khmer
1 entries- ក្បុង noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Latin
1 entries- lixa noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Macedonian
3 entries- лу́га noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- пепе́лница noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- цеѓ noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Manx
1 entries- booag noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- lut noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- lut noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Occitan
1 entries- lessiu noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بوغاده noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Polish
1 entries- ług noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Portuguese
2 entries- lixívia noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- soda cáustica noun (potassium or sodium hydroxide)
Romanian
1 entries- leșie noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Russian
4 entries- е́дкий натр noun (potassium or sodium hydroxide)
- е́дкое ка́ли noun (potassium or sodium hydroxide)
- ка́устик noun (potassium or sodium hydroxide)
- щёлок noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- buac noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- lȗg noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- лу̑г noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Sicilian
2 entries- liscìa noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- lissìa noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Spanish
4 entries- [el] agua de ceniza noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- jabón / detergente de ceniza noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- lejía de ceniza noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- llicta noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Swedish
1 entries- lut noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Tagalog
2 entries- lihiya noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- tilis noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Thai
1 entries- ด่าง noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Turkish
2 entries- buğada noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- kostik noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Ukrainian
1 entries- луг noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Vietnamese
2 entries- nước tro noun (caustic alkaline solution)
- nước tro tàu noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Welsh
1 entries- lleisw noun (caustic alkaline solution)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Before olives can be eaten, they must be soaked in lye, which must then be rinsed off.
Source: tatoeba (10615481)
Lye is a key ingredient in the soap-making process.
Source: tatoeba (10797726)
She had not left the lye in too long so that the hair would fall out in clumps later.
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