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li·a·ble | ˈlī(ə)b(ə)l |

adjective

1 responsible by law; legally answerable: the supplier of goods or services can become liable for breach of contract in a variety of ways.

2 likely to do or to be something: patients were liable to faint if they stood up too suddenly.

• (liable to) likely to experience (something undesirable): areas liable to flooding.

li·bel | ˈlībəl |

noun

1 Law a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation. Compare with slander.

• the action or crime of publishing a false statement about a person: [as modifier] : a libel action | a councilor who sued two national newspapers for libel.

• a false and typically malicious statement about a person.

• a thing or circumstance that brings undeserved discredit on a person by misrepresentation.

2 (in admiralty and ecclesiastical law) a plaintiff's written declaration.

verb (libels, libeling, libeled; British libels, libelling, libelled) [with object]

1 Law defame (someone) by publishing a libel: she alleged the magazine had libeled her.

• make a false and typically malicious statement about.

2 (in admiralty and ecclesiastical law) bring a suit against: if a ship does you any injury you libel the ship.