Lie

Quick meaning: Lie is a verb meaning (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.

Meaning

(intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
2. (intransitive, copulative) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
3. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
4. Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
5. Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
6. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
7. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.

Example Sentences

Under an oak were lying asleep a pair of shepherds.

The watchful traveller […] / Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes.

Our uninquiring corpses lie more low / Than our life's curiosity doth go.

Ying-yang county lies 70 li southwest of the modern Teng-feng county, Honan.

Word Forms

• lies
• lien
• lied
• liest
• liedst
• lieth

Synonyms for lie

Depending on context, synonyms include anti-fact, invention, bluff, bollocks, bullshit, canard.

Antonyms for lie

Common opposites include fact, truth, verity, rise, arise, stand.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lie down, lie in, dwell, rest, prevarication, belong.

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