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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

lie in en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (archaic) To be brought to bed in childbirth.
    • he had been driven to it by the distress he mentioned, the greatest indeed imaginable, that of five hungry children, and a wife lying in of the sixth, in the utmost want and misery. 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 467:
  2. (UK) To stay in bed (longer than usual).
    • I've got a day off tomorrow, so I might lie in till about 11.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
lies in Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
lay in Tense=Past lexicographic
lain in Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lying in Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

lying-in · lie-in