Like
//laɪ̯k//
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The word "like" can be used as verb, preposition, noun, particle, adjective, adjective, conjunction, adverb and proper noun.
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I like that I like turtles I'd like to know I'm in this photo and I don't like it alike and the like as like as not as you like be like be like be like belike beliked bend it like Beckham do someone like that done like a dinner feel like feel like forelike if you like it was like this just like that liddat likable likam like a big dog like a headless chook like a plasterer's radio like breaking sticks like farm like fits like fudge like it or leave it like it or lump it like it or not like like like nobody else like real like smack like the wrath of God like there were no tomorrow like you can talk like-cultured like-for-like like-gendered like-minded like-mindedness like-positioned likeability likeable likeful likejacking likeless likeness liker likesome likewise likeworthy likish look like look like make like make like mislike seem like semilike something like something like that sound like stink like a mackerel in the moonlight stink like a mackerel in the sun suchlike there's no place like home unlikable unlike walk it like one talks it well-liking would like
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activity admire affection affection simply affectionate affectionate term affinity akin akin to almost almost love appreciate appreciation approval approve approve of as as if as like as not as though attraction attractive care care for caring caring someone compare comparing comparing things desire emotion enjoy enjoyment equal equalize favor feel feel affinity feeling find fondness for example habit interest internet kind kind of lesser lesser love like like likely liken love love slightly loving maintain mild mild love milder please pleasure prefer preference probable reminiscent resemblance rubbish same similar similar to similarity simile simply slightly someone sort sort of stroke such such as support term type vote way would like
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