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liked to adverb phrase (Have) nearly, (have) almost, (have) come close to. [from had like to have or was like to have; with the first element of the phrase being contracted or lost and the final have also reduced or lost, after which like is followed by a past-participle form made indistinguishable from a past-tense form; DARE labels this phrase “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1774 Dunmore’s War 244 The Indians had like to done Andersons Job, having struck into the stockade a few Inches from his Head. 1824 (in 1912 Doddridge Notes on Settlement 23) An uncle of mine, of the name of Teter, had liked to have lost his life by one of them [=bears]. 1862 Proffit CW Letters (June 12) I had Like to halv forgoten to ask you if you got them postedg stamps. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 229 My leg liked to killed me. 1954 GSMNP-19:5 I stayed in the tree all night and liked to froze to death. 1939 Hall Coll (Gatlinburg TN) He scared the bear nearly to death and like to scared him to death too. 1993 Stories ‘neath Roan 92 Lord, that liked to killed us, ever’one.