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lie down

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to assume a reclining position 2 (context intransitive English) to be lazy or remiss

WordNet
lie down

v. assume a reclining position; "lie down on the bed until you feel better" [syn: lie] [ant: arise]

Usage examples of "lie down".

She was tempted to lie down in the hot water and ignore the voice—.

He realized that what he wanted now more than anything else was simply to lie down.

By his tone, he was as convinced he had the right to send her away as Dieter Kuhn was that he had the right to tell her to take off her clothes and lie down on the bed.

It's getting dark, so this fellow will soon come out and lie down in the shallows to sleep.

Well, well, let's lie down again and sleep out what little of the night there's left, and God will send us dawn and we shall be all right.

To lie down and die, and be no more--no more forever--time never was when man wished for such an end.

For, if these things be so, lie down and sleep, and lead the life of which you judge yourself worthy—.

According to the King's custom, when he wishes to lie down and sleep, they make for him a hedge of brush-wood and of thorns behind which his tent is pitched, which was done for him all along this route.

For when they do not wish, as has been mentioned above, to be bodily transferred to a place, but desire to see what their fellow-witches are doing, it is their practice to lie down on their left side in the name of their own and of all devils.