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(v)
(intransitive) To assume a horizontal position.
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(UK) To stay in bed (longer than usual).
(intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
(n)
(uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
Evasion of the truth.
(intransitive) To have its proper place.
(rail transport) A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.
(intransitive) To lean back.
(transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
(heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.
A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
To position or be positioned physically:
To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
(adj)
(American spelling) Alternative spelling of cosy. [(of a place or object) Affording comfort and warmth; snug; social and comfortable.]
(intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
(intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
(transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
Late.
To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
(transitive) To make (something) long or longer, for example, by pulling or stretching; to make (something) elongated; to extend, to lengthen.
(transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
(transitive) To make longer, to extend the length of.
(intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
An attempt to conceal or disguise something, especially a wrongdoing or a mistake.
(intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
(intransitive) To speak or act in a manner that is intentionally ambiguous or evasive; equivocate.
(uncountable) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture
(intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
(intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
(South Korean idol fandom) A segment of a performance where artists speak to the audience.
A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
(transitive) To trick or mislead.
To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.
An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.
(intransitive) To happen or take place.
(reflexive) To knowingly and willfully make a false statement of witness while in court.
(intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
A person who frequently lies; someone who tells a lie.
(informal) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
The characteristic of being false.
(uncountable) The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
(uncountable, informal) Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.
Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance, achievements, or possessions.
Not real; false, fraudulent.
(logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.
(countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
To design a new process or mechanism.
(intransitive, usually followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.
(countable) A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie.
A lie or falsehood.
That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
(transitive) To make up; to compose; to form.
(with on or upon, formerly also with in) to trust; to have confidence in; to depend.
An adult male human.
(transitive) To possess, own.
(ambitransitive) To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
The capability for rational thought.
(informal) Something remarkably large.
(of an agreement, contract, etc.) Imposing stipulations or requirements that must be honoured.
A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
(of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
(transitive) To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another).
True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
(informal) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
(intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality
(literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
(slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
Alternative form of tarradiddle. [A trivial lie, a fib.]
(countable, drama) a dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone
A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
(Pakistan, politics) Initialism of Baloch(istan) Liberation Army.
A diminutive of the male given names Zachariah or Zachary.
A golf course, especially one situated on dunes by the sea.
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
situated in a particular spot or position
Initialism of Independent Institute of Education.
Initialism of lower explosive limit.
(law) The deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath.
An account of real or fictional events.
(idiomatic) A tale or story which is fantastic and greatly exaggerated; also, an account of questionable veracity; a lie, an untruth.
The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
A misrepresentation of the truth.
Something invented.
(countable or uncountable) An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s position in order to intimidate or deceive; braggadocio.
A folktale or literary story featuring fairies or similar fantasy characters.
(uncountable) The characteristic or condition of being dishonest.