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i read this word in The Stranger yesterday. I have never seen it before.
I'm not clear on it's meaning.
An author cam LIMN OUT a character in a story. I think this means to layer on aspects of personality and habits.
LIMN by Adam April 21, 2005

limnic eruption 

Gas eruption in a lake situated in an old volcanic crater.

Gas seeps into the lake from the ground underneath, and under the high pressure on the lake bottom it saturates the water, leading to high concentrations of gases like CO2 and Methane. A disruption of the water, such as an earthquake, causes some of the gas to reach higher up in the lake, where the pressure is lower. The gas can then escape the water, forms bubbles and travels to the surface. This opens a gap for more gas to do the same, and a chain reaction occurs.

This eruption of gas can cause a decent-sized tsunami, and the cloud of gas that is left on the surface will travel along the ground, causing death by suffocation. If the gas involved is Methane it can also catch fire and cause an enormous explosion.
The limnic eruption of lake Nyos in August 1986 killed nearly 2000 people and thousands of animals, yet nobody takes the risk of the same thing happening in a much larger scale in the enormous lake Kivu seriously enough to spend money on preventing it. Wow.
limnic eruption by Pynasta December 2, 2013

Limny shit head 

Oi you Limny shit head cunts go clean ur cheesy vaginas ya fat greedy shits
A place to go every summer and get fucked up everyday and do stupid shit. smoke weed and do toumpes. on your first night out drink go and almost kill yourself on a michanaki. a place where the kids go fucking crazy on michanakia. and you can break into military intelligence buildings. oh and the moon dissapears when ur high. and the craziest motherfuckers in limnos are from panagia and plaka. Orfeas lives there and if u see him kick him or punch him, he sucks.

Fucked up shit.
Re michali, limnos was fucked up this year, you almost died!

POU EISAI ORFEA!!!!???

Simera ti 8a kanoume?? re. 8a ta spasoume ola!!
Limnos by Re_MALAKA_DRUNK!!!!!! November 2, 2009

limnifigistic 

State of being where your brain is so blank you're thinking retarded thoughts.
dude 1:"Dude, I was so out of it last i nite!"
dude 2"Yeah man, you were limnifigistic!"
limnifigistic by Jonny July 23, 2004

Limnophobia 

Is the fear of lakes
They went to the lake but his friend had limnophobia
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