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lying¹

  • /ˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/ US, UK

Rhymes with -aɪɪŋ

Where it comes from

lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”) + -ing.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”) Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward.

noun lyings

  1. The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground. 1854, Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXIV, translated by Philip Schaff et al. But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?

lying²

  • /ˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/ US, UK

Rhymes with -aɪɪŋ

Where it comes from

lie (“to intentionally give false information”) + -ing.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of lie (“to intentionally give false information”)

noun lyings

  1. An act or telling a lie or falsehood; the practice of telling lies. [W]hether a man would fain be pleased with sin, or be quiet and fearless when he hath sinned, or continue in it, or persuade others to it, he must do it by false propositions, by lyings, and such weak discourses as none can believe but such as are born fools, or such as have made themselves so, or a

adjective more lying · lyinger · most lying · lyingest

  1. not comparable, usually Tending to tell lies, untruthful, mendacious Gloster: Then, Saunder, sit there, the lyingest knave in Christendom.

lying³

  • /ˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/ US, UK

Rhymes with -aɪɪŋ

Where it comes from

lye. (a chemical liquid)

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of lye

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: prevarication, mendacious, untruthful, fabrication, cover-up, resting, deceiving, deceit, deception, mendacity, liar, faker, falsehood, ranging, untruth, reclining

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noun act of keeping low to the ground

Españoldecúbito

noun act of telling a lie

Deutschlügend
العربيةكَذِب kaḏib

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@misc{lying_2026,
  title = {lying},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lying},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}