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lie down

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lie down, lieverb

    assume a reclining position

    "lie down on the bed until you feel better"

Wiktionary

  1. lie downverb

    to assume a reclining position

  2. lie downverb

    to be lazy or remiss

Wikipedia

  1. lie down

    Lying – also called recumbency, prostration, or decubitus in medicine (from Latin decumbo 'to lie down') – is a type of human position in which the body is more or less horizontal and supported along its length by the surface underneath. Lying is the most common position while being immobilized (e.g. in bedrest), while sleeping, or while being struck by injury or disease.

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  1. lie down

    Lie down generally refers to the act of moving from a standing or sitting position to a flat, reclining, or prone position. It often implies rest, relaxation or the intent to sleep, but can also be used in various contexts such as medical examination or doing certain exercises.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lie down in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lie down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of lie down in a Sentence

  1. Thomas à Kempis:

    Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

  2. Maci Young:

    My happy, healthy 10-year-old would come home every day and have to lie down because she would have migraines, she hasn’t taken a nap since she was 3!

  3. Kelli Ward:

    Yes, I will be radical about those things because those are the things that keep this country great, the people who are complaining are the people who actually put us in this spot where we are in Arizona, people who have been mamby pamby, lie down and allow the Democrats to walk all over them.

  4. Max Bailey:

    The reason I was in front of the car was to make sure everyone was safe and to get this lady to stop from running over protesters, the reason I got on top of the car was because she accelerated into me and I’m not going to lie down and let somebody run over me.

  5. Woody Allen:

    The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.


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