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Lie

See Lye.

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Manner of action 40

Back 76% connected

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

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Bask 76% connected

To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.

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Cap 76% connected

A covering for the head

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Command 76% connected

To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.

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Crest 76% connected

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthe…

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Dominate 76% connected

To predominate over; to rule; to govern.

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Face 76% connected

The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which…

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Fib 76% connected

A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.

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Flank 76% connected

The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.

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Focalize 76% connected

To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.

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Front 76% connected

The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Intervene 76% connected

To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.

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Lap 76% connected

The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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Localize 76% connected

To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.

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Look 76% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Mediate 76% connected

Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.

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Nestle 76% connected

To make and occupy a nest; to nest.

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Orient 76% connected

Rising, as the sun.

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Overlie 76% connected

To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant.

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Overlook 76% connected

To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to…

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Overtop 76% connected

To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above.

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Perjure 76% connected

To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; -- often…

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Precede 76% connected

To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.

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Predate 76% connected

To date anticipation; to affix to (a document) an earlier than the actual date; to antedate; as, a predated deed or letter.

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Prostrate 76% connected

Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.

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Recline 76% connected

To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.

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Recumb 76% connected

To lean; to recline; to repose.

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Repose 76% connected

To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit.

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Ride 76% connected

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

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Romance 76% connected

A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arth…

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Slant 76% connected

To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.

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Sprawl 76% connected

To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.

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Stretch 76% connected

To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

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Sun 76% connected

See Sunn.

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Top 76% connected

A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…

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Underlie 76% connected

To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Falsehood 76% connected

Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.

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Falsity 76% connected

The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.

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Misinform 76% connected

To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.

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Mislead 76% connected

To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Rest 76% connected

To arrest.

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Untruth 76% connected

The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty.

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Narrower term 5

Fib 76% connected

A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.

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Jactitation 76% connected

Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right; false claim.

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Story 76% connected

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered…

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Tale 76% connected

See Tael.

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Whopper 76% connected

Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie.

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Derivationally related 4

Liar 74% connected

A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.

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Liar 74% connected

A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.

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Prevarication 74% connected

The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.

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Prevarication 74% connected

The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.

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Synonym 4

Consist 92% connected

To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist…

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Dwell 92% connected

To delay; to linger.

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Prevarication 92% connected

The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.

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Rest 92% connected

To arrest.

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Antonym 6

Arise 94% connected

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

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Arise 94% connected

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

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Sit 94% connected

obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.

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Sit 94% connected

obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.

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Stand 94% connected

To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

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Stand 94% connected

To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

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