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lied

[lahyd]

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verb

simple past tense and past participle of lie¹.

Example Sentences

He told them that he had lied to them, and everyone else, and had to make it right.

I've been lied to by them about how they didn't know the place was a diploma mill.

These days it generally refuses licences only when a company is found to have lied to it.

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He told them that he had lied to them, and everyone else, and had to make it right.

I've been lied to by them about how they didn't know the place was a diploma mill.

These days it generally refuses licences only when a company is found to have lied to it.

And they've lied about how many trees they're cutting, so they can pay less in taxes.

But, be prepared to open your mind to the fact you have been lied to by the environmentalist movement.

Those of us who were pushed away and lied to about our family grow up with deep yearnings.

It's possible that the students lied about what they remembered.

He told me how they lied for years, pretending to be friends and then betrayed those friends to their deaths.

Many of them lied and cheated regularly, and took advantage of their positions.

The only thing was he lied and tricked people a lot.

People then have tried it and found out that they have been lied to over and over.

The magician must sell people a lie even as they know they're being lied to.

In accordance to the evaluation methodology used in the test, he lied.

Other cops involved in the event have lied about it.

They lied when they impersonated thousands of individual ticket buyers.

Rather than doom his workers, he lied and claimed that even his unskilled help were indispensable to his factory's operation.

But that is only because they have been lied to consistently for many years by their medical profession.

Each time authorities told the owner to get rid of the dog, he lied and said he'd replaced it with a new dog.

And senior officers had lied in an attempt to cover up the horror.

A¿s answers are inconsistent, so he must have lied the first time.

So they lied to me once and they'll probably lie to me again.

His critics say that he rushed into war, lied about his reasons, failed to plan adequately and botched the execution.

Childeren being lied to and children lying is nothing to be righteously indignant about nor should it be a basis of cynicism.

Yet prosecutors had to prove his role in the hotel bombings to show that he had lied.

He was found to have lied about his whereabouts while missing pre-race drug tests.

As he ruefully told this writer more than once, he was lied to.

The women who thought they were wearing counterfeits lied about those locations more often than those who did not.

Definitive proof that he lied to start the war probably does not exist, however.

Nichols that a government scientist lied when he said ammonium nitrate.

They initially lied about what fraternity they were.

Hill has disavowed its premise, and now says that he lied in print to protect.

He went on a date with one woman who lied about her weight.

Those young men got what was coming for them, as well as lied to the boy's dad about his where abouts.

Extremists on both sides have lied constantly as far back as this debate goes.

They tricked people, they lied about one kind of detail after another and they exaggerated.

And if you have lied and stolen, you have dishonored your parents by being a liar and a theif.

Paterson had intentionally lied to the investigators, a precondition for charging him with perjury.

The fact that no oil company had any real plan to take care of such a spill and lied about.

McCurry declined to say whether someone's remains should be removed if it turned out he lied about his record.

But police have sometimes lied on behalf of colleagues.

They want confirmation that something is wrong with higher education, that they have been lied to, systematically.

People know they were lied to by the wedge-issue demagogues.

Our charming elites lied us on the original motivations, as they still lie today while preparing the opinion for the next step:.

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noun, plural lied·er

[lee-der; Ger. lee-duhr] .

a typically 19th-century German art song characterized by the setting of a poetic text in either strophic or through-composed style and the treatment of the piano and voice in equal artistic partnership: Schubert lieder.

Origin:
1850–55; < German

noun

a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.

something intended or serving to convey a false impression; imposture: His flashy car was a lie that deceived no one.

an inaccurate or false statement.

the charge or accusation of lying: He flung the lie back at his accusers.

verb (used without object)

to speak falsely or utter untruth knowingly, as with intent to deceive.

to express what is false; convey a false impression.

verb (used with object)

to bring about or affect by lying (often used reflexively): to lie oneself out of a difficulty; accustomed to lying his way out of difficulties.

Idioms

give the lie to,

to accuse of lying; contradict.

to prove or imply the falsity of; belie: His poor work gives the lie to his claims of experience.

lie in one's throat/teeth, to lie grossly or maliciously: If she told you exactly the opposite of what she told me, she must be lying in her teeth. Also, lie through one's teeth.

Origin:
before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English lyge; cognate with German Lüge, Old Norse lygi; akin to Gothic liugn; (v.) Middle English lien, Old English lēogan (intransitive); cognate with German lügen, Old Norse ljūga, Gothic liugan

Synonyms
1. prevarication, falsification. See falsehood. 5. prevaricate, fib.

Antonyms
1. truth.

verb (used without object)

to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline.

(of objects) to rest in a horizontal or flat position: The book lies on the table.

to be or remain in a position or state of inactivity, subjection, restraint, concealment, etc.: to lie in ambush.

to rest, press, or weigh (usually followed by on or upon): These things lie upon my mind.

to depend (usually followed by on or upon).

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to be placed or situated: land lying along the coast.

to be stretched out or extended: the broad plain that lies before us.

to be in or have a specified direction; extend: The trail from here lies to the west.

to be found or located in a particular area or place: The fault lies here.

10.

to consist or be grounded (usually followed by in): The real remedy lies in education.

11.

to be buried in a particular spot: Their ancestors lie in the family plot.

12.

Law. to be sustainable or admissible, as an action or appeal.

13.

Archaic. to lodge; stay the night; sojourn.

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noun

14.

the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies.

15.

the haunt or covert of an animal.

16.

Golf. the position of the ball relative to how easy or how difficult it is to play.

Verb phrases

17.

lie by,

to pause for rest; stop activities, work, etc., temporarily.

to lie unused: Ever since the last member of the family died, the old house has lain by.

18.

lie down, to assume a horizontal or prostrate position, as for the purpose of resting.

19.

lie in, to be confined to bed in childbirth.

20.

lie over, to be postponed for attention or action at some future time: The other business on the agenda will have to lie over until the next meeting.

21.

lie up,

to lie at rest; stay in bed.

(of a ship) to dock or remain in dock.

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22.

lie with,

to be the duty or function of: The decision in this matter lies with him.

Archaic. to have sexual intercourse with.

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Idioms

23.

lie down on the job, Informal. to do less than one could or should do; shirk one's obligations.

24.

lie in state. state (def. 24).

25.

lie low. low¹ (def. 51).

26.

lie to, Nautical. (of a ship) to lie comparatively stationary, usually with the head as near the wind as possible.

27.

take lying down, to hear or yield without protest, contradiction, or resistance: I refuse to take such an insult lying down.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English lien, liggen, Old English licgan; cognate with German liegen, Dutch liggen, Old Norse liggja, Gothic ligan; akin to Greek léchesthai to lie down

Synonyms
14. place, location, site.

Antonyms
1, 2. stand.

Usage note
See lay¹.

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World English Dictionary

lied (liːd, German liːt)

—n , pl lieder
	music any of various musical settings for solo voice and piano of a romantic or lyrical poem, for which composers such as Schubert, Schumann, and Wolf are famous

[from German: song]

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Word Origin & History

lie

"an untruth," O.E. lyge, from P.Gmc. *lugin (cf. O.N. lygi, Dan. løgn, O.Fris. leyne, Ger. Lüge, Goth. liugn). To give the lie to "accuse directly of lying" is attested from 1593. Lie-detector first recorded 1909.

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lied

1852, from Ger., lit. "song," from M.H.G. liet, from O.H.G. liod, from P.Gmc. *leuthan (see laud).

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Medical Dictionary

lie (lī)
n.
The manner or position in which something is situated, especially the relation that the long axis of a fetus bears to that of its mother.

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