Meaning
The large organ inside your body that cleans your blood and helps you use food.
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Word origin
From Old English lifer, an old Germanic name for the organ, shared with Dutch lever and German Leber.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- lifer
Grammar
Examples
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The liver sits on the right side of your body, under the ribs.
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Doctors often check the liver when someone drinks a lot.
onions.
As food, "liver" is uncountable: some liver, not a liver.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 29, lesson 11: liver, dine, spill and 7 more words.