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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

lie with en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (US, transitive) To be the responsibility or duty of (someone).
    • That task lies with you.
  2. (archaic, euphemistic) To have sex with someone.
    • Howbeit hee would not hearken vnto her voice, but being stronger then shee, forced her, and lay with her. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 13:14:
    • While this band was not especially powerful, Shiagur was a female warlord – and one of the few remaining fertile females, at that. She had, through viciousness and cunning, parlayed her unique value into a position of power. Krogan males competed for the right to join her band and lie with her. 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Canrum:

Forms

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

Relateds

if you lie with dogs you will get fleas

Synonyms

lie by · know · sleep with

Translations (12)

he שָׁכַב (to have sex) · nn ligge med (to have sex) · pl przespać się z (to have sex) · la concumbō (to have sex) · nn liggje med (to have sex) · nn ligga med (to have sex) · la cubō cum (to have sex) · nn liggja med (to have sex) · pl spać z (to have sex) · sv ligga med (to have sex) · la iaceō cum (to have sex) · nb ligge med (to have sex)