lie down
verboEn español: echarse, tenderse, acostarse, yacer
- 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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Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie down on her face like the three gardeners, but she could not remember ever having heard of such a rule at processions; “and besides, what would be the use of a procession,” thought she, “if people had all to lie down upon their faces, so that they couldn’t see it?” So she stood still where she was, and waited.
But to lie down and pretend I was dead--I just couldn’t.
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.”
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