lie down
verb- To assume a horizontal position. · Lie down on the bed until you feel better.
- A standard command to a herding dog to assume this position, owing to its effect on the herd's movement.
- To be lazy or remiss. · He never got promoted because he was always lying down on the job.
- To submit passively. · I'm not going to lie down and take this!
- To have sexual intercourse (with).
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It would not rest him to lie down, and he could not close his eyes; so he remained all night staring at a little spider which was weaving its web in a corner of the room, just as if it were not one of the most wonderful rooms in the world.
But the Scarecrow said, “This is my battle, so lie down beside me and you will not be harmed.”
After he had eaten he would lie down on his bed of straw, and Dorothy would lie beside him and put her head on his soft, shaggy mane, while they talked of their troubles and tried to plan some way to escape.
But to lie down and pretend I was dead--I just couldn’t.
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