Meaning

(anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions..

Definitions by Sense

1. (anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
2. (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
3. A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
4. (obsolete chemistry) Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.
5. Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
6. (uncommon) Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
7. comparative form of live: more live

Example Sentences

Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.

I'd like some goose liver pate.

You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken liver.

"I should think you've rocked the boat enough already by refusing to eat liver."

He gave his horse some liver of antimony.

His friend Rothwell, who had the use of the best Laveracks for breeding purposes, wrote him that one of his puppies was liver and white.

Ephori of Sparta, hearing a dissolute liver propose a very beneficial advise unto the people, commaunded him to hold his peace, and desired an honest man to assume the invention of it unto himselfe and to propound it.

a wicked liver may be reclaimed, and prove an honest man[…].

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Use liver when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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