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Verb

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liedown (third-person singular simple presentlies down,present participlelying down,simple pastlay down,past participlelain down)

  1. (intransitive) Toassume ahorizontalposition.
    Antonym:get up
    Lie down on the bed until you feel better.
    1. (imperative) A standard command to aherding dog to assume this position, owing to its effect on the herd's movement.
  2. (intransitive) To belazy orremiss.
    He never got promoted because he was alwayslying down on the job.
    • 2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, inthe Telegraph‎[1]:
      They may have finished 11 points behind West Ham and lost both league games, conceding eight goals, but the Tangerine dream remains alive. Holloway said: “We won’t get a bigger test than West Ham but we’ve got one chance. If you’d asked me last summer when I lost all those players I’d have said this was a dead duck, but we don’tlie down at this club.”
  3. (intransitive) Tosubmitpassively.
    I'm not going tolie down and take this!
  4. (with 'with', euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (with).

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Not to be confused withlay down; see also usage notes atlay.

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Translations

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assume a horizontal position
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