what does livid mean?
LIVID as ADJECTIVE
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- willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid
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- (of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity
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- livid lightning streaked the sky
- a thousand flambeaux…turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day- E.A.Poe
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- ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion
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- a face turned ashen
- the invalid’’s blanched cheeks
- tried to speak with bloodless lips
- a face livid with shock
- lips…livid with the hue of death- Mary W. Shelley
- lips white with terror
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- discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
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- beaten black and blue
- livid bruises
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