lacing
Meaning of lacing
- the laced fastening of a shoe or garment.
they struggled with each other's clothing, tearing at the lacing
the elaborate lacings of his shirt
- lace trimming, especially on a uniform.
- a dash of spirits added to a drink.
black coffee with a generous lacing of rum
- fasten or tighten (a shoe or garment) by tying the laces.
he put the shoes on and laced them up
- entwine (things, especially fingers) together.
she laced her fingers together
- add an ingredient, especially alcohol, to (a drink or dish) to enhance its flavour or strength.
he gave us coffee laced with brandy
he was left seriously ill after eating a meal allegedly laced with poison
Middle English: from Old French laz, las (noun), lacier (verb), based on Latin laqueus ‘noose’ (also an early sense in English). Compare with lasso.
Information about lacing
- The plural form of lacing is: lacings.
- Languages in which lacing is used:
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Hyphenation of lacing
lac-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- lacing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
lacing synonyms
Meaning lace:
Meaning beating:
beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, trouncing, whacking
Meaning close or do up securely:
Meaning fix or attach (something) firmly so that it cannot be moved or lost:
Meaning tie or fasten (something) tightly together:
Meaning fasten with a knot:
Meaning tie up the wings and legs of (a chicken or other bird) before cooking:
Meaning wind or twist together; interweave:
Meaning twist or twine together:
Meaning wind or cause to wind round something:
Meaning cause to become twisted together with or caught in:
Meaning weave or become woven together:
Meaning join or connect (two or more things) together:
Meaning make, form, or suggest a connection with or between:
Meaning form (hair) into a braid or braids:
Meaning form (hair, straw, rope, or other material) into a plait or plaits:
Meaning alter or enhance the taste of (food or drink) by adding a particular ingredient:
Meaning mix (a substance) with another substance so that they combine together:
Meaning provide (a place) with defensive works as protection against attack:
Meaning make or become stronger:
Meaning make or become stiff or rigid:
Meaning add salt, herbs, pepper, or other spices to (food):
Meaning inspire or permeate with (a feeling or quality):
Meaning fill; pervade:
Meaning improve or enhance the quality or value of:
Meaning make (something) more entertaining, interesting, or appealing:
Meaning alter the content of (food or drink) by adding strong or harmful ingredients:
Meaning render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance:
Meaning make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance:
Meaning administer a drug to (someone) in order to induce stupor or insensibility:
Meaning add alcohol or a drug to contaminate (drink or food) surreptitiously:
Meaning help or encourage (something) to increase or improve:
lacing antonyms
Meaning unfasten, untie, or loosen (something):
Anagrams of lacing
Words that rhyme with lacing
Macing, acing, afacing, aggracing, antiracing, backspacing, belacing, boldfacing, bracing, catfacing, chacing, commonplacing, counterbracing, defacing, disgracing, dispacing, displacing, effacing, embacing, embracing, emplacing, enfacing, engracing, enlacing, enracing, facing, footracing, furnacing, gracing, grimacing, horseracing, inlacing, interembracing, interfacing, interlacing, interspacing, intertracing, letterspacing, macing, manacing, medevacing, menacing, microspacing, misplacing, misspacing, mistracing, necklacing, nonfacing, nonmenacing, outfacing