lie

Meaning

Verb

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

Noun

1. The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
2. The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
3. The position of a fetus in the womb.
4. A manner of lying; relative position.
5. An animal's lair.

Noun

1. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
2. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.
3. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

Concepts

lie

falsehood

tell a lie

fib

deceive

untruth

lie down

tell lies

rest

deceit

cheat

fabrication

lies

recline

prevarication

prevaricate

deception

relax

be

repose

fiction

place

lay

sit

lie on the side

swindle

deny

tell a fib

tell untruths

false

tell a falsehood

fraud

trick

sleep

untrue

falsify

tell an untruth

extend

untruthfulness

run

remain

consist

dwell

lie in

pretence

fable

lying

go to bed

story

have

nonsense

equivocate

falsification

be situated

be located

location

site

be buried

sit down

mendacity

range

falsity

situation

make a misstatement

be lying

blame

liar

denial

outright lie

false statement

lying down

grudge

stingy

go

situated

stand

delude

be deceptive

speak falsely

exist

make false statements

commit perjury

perjure oneself

swear falsely

cause to smile slightly

unfounded

be still

incorrect fact

bogus

imitation

sham

pretend

apply to

be applicable

be assigned

be equivalent to

be hit

be successful

face

treat

undertake

imitated cry

false report

fake

fabricate

palter

fabricate a lie

make up story

untrue words

utter a falsehood

be locate

concoct

invent

misrepresent

think up

trump up

conceal low

hide

low

break one’s word

forge

distortion

perjure

imposture

misspeak

entombed

stretch

myth

pass

spend the time lying

rec-line

settle

have sexualintercourse

copulate

have a sexual intercourse

have intercourse

unreal

crammer

gag

sklent

taradiddle

wrong

lees

get attached

make a mis-statement

speak

talk

be lying down

> rulbyo

laze

go to sleep

expand

sprawl

bestrew

plank

strew

strow

lisping

stammering

fig

Luyana

craft

cunning

be in a place

lay down

tell stories

mislead

decive

talk nonsense

bed

underlie

bear

carry

carry weight

come

comprise

constitute

have got

hold

house

lend

make

make up

number

olla

represent

reside

total

wear

date back

date from

stem

bearing

exposure

position

spatial relation

whereabouts

base

set

tale

scheme

counterfeiting

invention

locate

situate

betray

fail

tall tale

located

buried

spread over

fool

lie around

libel

slander

embellish

embroider

improve upon

cock-and-bull story

fairy tale

rubbish

lie along

parallel

feed

on

kidding

hypocrite

falsely

exaggerate

alsehood

take

found

Druj

deceiver

lier

empty talk

inaccurate

speak untruthfully

treachery

mistruth

put to bed

bullshit

jive

mistake

bluff

put

tell

lie on side

sits

take a seat

joke

gammon

face down

Pronounced as (IPA)

/laɪ̯/

Etymology

From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.
Cognate with West Frisian lizze, Dutch liggen, German liegen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ligge, Swedish ligga, Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk liggja, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ligan); and with Latin lectus (“bed”), Irish luí, Russian лежа́ть (ležátʹ), Albanian lag (“troop, band, encampment”).
As a noun for position, the noun has the same etymology above as the verb.