lie down

US pronunciation

American soundlie down

liedown

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

lie - down -> lie down

Myanmar meaning

Full entry

lie¹ / laÇ / v (pt, pp lied ; pres p lying )

၁။ ~ (to sb) (about sth) လိမ်ပြောသည်။ မုသားဆိုသည်။ You could see from the expression on his face that he was lying. ❍ Don’t lie to me! ❍ She lies about her age.
၂။ ညာသည်။ လှည့်စားသည်။ The camera cannot lie.
n မုသား။ His story is nothing but a pack of lies. ❍ That’s a complete lie! See also WHITE LIE
❏ give the lie to sth [IDM ] အလိမ်ပေါ်စေသည်။ These figures give the lie to reports that business is declining.
❏ lie-detector n အလိမ်ဖမ်းစက်။ အမှန်ကို ပြောမပြော ဖော်ထုတ်နိုင်သော စက်ကိရိယာ။ take a lie-detector test.
❏ lie through one’s teeth [IDM ] (infml ) ဇွတ်မှိတ် ညာသည်။ ကြက်ခြေတစ်ချောင်းလုပ်သည်။ The witness was clearly lying through his teeth.
❏ lie one’s way into / out of sth [IDM ] နှစ်ပေါက် တစ်ပေါက်ရိုက်၍…။ He’s lied his way into the job. ❍ LIE²

lie² / laÇ / v

(pt lay / leÇ / ; pp lain / leÇn/; pres p lying )
၁။ လဲသည်။ လျောင်းသည်။ lie on one’s back / side / front တည်ရှိသည်။ ❍ The corpse lay face down in a pool of blood. ❍ The dog was lying fast asleep by the fire.
၂။ (ပြန့်ကြဲ၊ ပွင့်လျက်သား စသည်) ရှိသည်။ Clothes were lying (about) all over the floor. ❍ The book lay open on his desk.
၃။ ရှိနေသည်။ snow lying thick on the ground ❍ These machines have lain idle since the factory closed. ❍ a ship lying at anchor. ကျောက်ချ ထားသောသင်္ဘော။ ❍ I’d rather use my money than leave it lying in the bank. ငါ့ပိုက်ဆံကို ဘဏ်ထဲမှာထားမည့်အစား သုံးပစ်မှာပေါ့။
၄။ (ရှေ့မှာ၊ အောက်မှာစသည်)ရှိသည်။ The valley lay below us. ❍ (fig ) You’re still young — your whole life lies ahead of/before you!
၅။ တည်ရှိသည်။ The town lies on the coast.
၆။ ~ (in sth) ရှိသည်။ It’s obvious where our interests lie (ie which course of action, etc is to our advantage). ❍ The problem lies in deciding when to intervene.
၇။ လိုက်နေသည်။ ရှိသည်။ Thompson is lying in fourth place. ❍ After five matches Derby are lying second.
n [sing] တည်ရာ။ He found his ball in a difficult lie. သူ့ဂေါက်သီး ကတ်သီးကတ်သတ် နေရာတွင် ကျနေကြောင်း တွေ့ရသည်။
❏ lie back [PHRV ] သက်သောင့်သက်သာ၊ နားနားနေနေ။ ဘာမျှမလုပ်ဘဲနေသည်။ You don’t have to do anything — just lie back and enjoy the journey.
❏ lie behind sth [PHRV ] နောက်ခံ အကြောင်းရင်း ရှိသည်။ What lay behind this strange outburst?
❏ lie doggo [IDM ] ငြိမ်ကုပ်နေသည်။ မလှုပ်မယှက်နေသည်။
❏ lie down [PHRV ] ခြေဆင်းလဲလူနေသည်။ Go and lie down for a while. ❍ He lay down on the sofa and soon fell asleep.
❏ lie-down n (usu sing ) (Brit infml ) တစ်မှေးမျှ အိပ်စက် ခြင်း။
❏ lie heavy on sb/sth [IDM ] စိတ်လေးသည်။ မအီမလည် ဖြစ်သည်။ a crime lying heavy on one’s conscience ❍ The responsibilities of management lay heavy on him. ❍ The rich meal lay heavy on my stomach.
❏ lie in (Brit ); (US ) sleep in [PHRV ] (infml ) နေမြင့်အောင် အိပ်ရာထဲနေသည်။ နောက်ကျအိပ်ရာ ထသည်။ It’s a holiday tomorrow, so you can lie in.
❏ lie-in n (usu sing ) (infml esp Brit ) ခါတိုင်းထက် အိပ်ရာထနောက်ကျခြင်း။ look forward to a nice long lie-in on Sunday.
❏ lie in state [IDM ] (အများ ဂါရဝပြုနိုင်ရန် အလောင်းကို) ခမ်းခမ်းနားနား ပြင်ဆင်ထားသည်။
❏ lie in wait (for sb) [IDM ] အလစ်ချောင်းနေသည်။ He was surrounded by reporters who had been lying in wait for him.
❏ lie low [IDM ] (infml ) ပုန်းအောင်းနေသည်။ The thieves decided to lie low for a while after the robbery.
❏ the lie of the land ; (US ) the lay of the land [IDM ]
၁။ မြေပြင်အနေအထား။ မြေပြင်အခြေအနေ။
၂။ (infml ) အခြေအနေ။ I’ll need to discover the lie of the land before making any decisions about the future of the business.
❏ lie with sb (to do sth) [PHRV ] (fml ) (အပေါ်) တည်သည်။ The decision on whether to proceed lies with the Governor. ❍ It lies with you to accept or reject the proposal.
❏ take sth lying down [IDM ] ငုံ့ခံသည်။

More examples

[lie on/in etc] : She was lying on the bed watching television.
[lie still/awake/unconscious etc] : I lay awake worrying about work.
[lie on your back/side/stomach etc] : Emma was lying on her back in the sunshine.
Go and lie on the bed until you feel better.
There were clothes lying all over the floor.
The village lies in a valley.
The farm lay a few miles to the north.
Here lies the body of James McDonald.
O’Connell is currently lying in second position in the world championship.
As we go into the third round, Evans is lying in third place.
He must decide where his future lies (=what he is going to do with his life).
[lie in] : The difficulty lies in knowing what to do next.
The castle lay in ruins.
Her bag was lying open on the table.
My main interest lies in the development of new technology.
It was obvious that she was lying.
[lie about] : He had to lie about his age to get into the army.
[lie to] : She admitted lying to the police.
[lie through your teeth] : They say they’re not married but they’re lying through their teeth.
The results of these surveys often lie.
I like Lucy, I won't lie to you.

Synonyms

recline, stretch out, lounge, lie down, slouch, laze, loll, BS, aspersion, backbiting, be, be arranged, be beside, be buried, be economical with the truth, be established, be even, be fixed, be found, be interred, be level, be located, be on, be placed, be positioned, be prone, be prostrate, be recumbent, be seated, be situated, be smooth, be supine, be untruthful, bear false witness, beguile, belong, beset, break promise, bull, calumniation, calumny, con, concoct, couch, deceit, deceive, deception, defamation, delude, detraction, dishonesty, disinformation, dissemble, dissimulate, distort, distortion, dupe, equivocate, evasion, exaggerate, exist, extend, fable, fabricate, fabrication, fake, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsify, falsity, fib, fiction, flat, forgery, forswear, frame, fraudulence, fudge, go back on, go to bed, guile, have its seat in, have on, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invent, invention, keep, libel, make believe, malign, mendacity, misguide, misinform, misinstruct, mislead, misrepresent, misrepresentation, misspeak, misstate, misstatement, myth, nap, obloquy, occupy, overdraw, palter, perjure, perjure yourself, perjury, pervert, phony, plant, prevail, prevaricate, prevarication, promote, put on, put up a front, reach, remain, repose, rest, retire, revilement, reviling, siesta, sit, slander, sleep, snow, soft-soap, sprawl, spread, stay, stop, story, stretch, string along, subterfuge, tale, tall story, tall tale, tell stories, tell untruths, turn in, untruth, victimize, vilification, white lie, whopper

Antonyms

be honest, be upright, compliment, compress, destroy, frankness, honesty, non-fiction, openness, praise, sincerity, stand, straighten, tell the truth, tell truth, truth, truthfulness, uprightness