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Exact Match:

lie

a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

position or manner in which something is situated

Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)

tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive; "Don't lie to your parents"; "She lied when she told me she was only 29"

be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position; "The sick man lay in bed all day"; "the books are lying on the shelf"

be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position

have a place in relation to something else; "The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The responsibility rests with the Allies"

be and remain in a particular state or condition; "lie dormant"

Synonyms:

• aim,
• aspect,
• attitude,
• azimuth,
• be found,
• be located,
• be met with,
• be present,
• be situated,
• be there,
• be untruthful,
• bearing,
• bearings,
• beguile,
• bent,
• blague,
• bouncer,
• canard,
• carry,
• celestial navigation,
• cheat,
• cock-and-bull story,
• course,
• cover,
• crawl,
• current,
• dead reckoning,
• deceitfulness,
• deceive,
• delude,
• direction,
• direction line,
• dishonesty,
• distort,
• distortion,
• draw the longbow,
• drift,
• dwell in,
• encompass,
• environ,
• equivocate,
• evade,
• exaggerate,
• exaggeration,
• exist,
• exposure,
• extend,
• fable,
• fairy tale,
• falsehood,
• falsification,
• falsify,
• falsity,
• farfetched story,
• farrago,
• fib,
• fiction,
• fish story,
• fix,
• flam,
• flimflam,
• forgery,
• fraudulence,
• frontage,
• ghost story,
• go,
• go out,
• grovel,
• half-truth,
• heading,
• helmsmanship,
• hold,
• inaccuracy,
• inclination,
• indwell,
• inhere,
• inveracity,
• lay,
• legal fiction,
• libel,
• lie athwart,
• lie down,
• lie flat,
• lie flatly,
• lie in,
• lie limply,
• lie prone,
• lie prostrate,
• line,
• line of direction,
• line of march,
• line of position,
• little white lie,
• loll,
• lounge,
• mendacity,
• misguide,
• misinform,
• misinstruct,
• mislead,
• misrepresentation,
• misstate,
• misstatement,
• myth,
• navigation,
• occur,
• orientation,
• palter,
• perjury,
• pilotage,
• piloting,
• pious fiction,
• point,
• position,
• position line,
• prevaricate,
• prevarication,
• quarter,
• radio bearing,
• range,
• reach,
• reach out,
• recline,
• remain,
• repose,
• reside,
• rest,
• ride,
• ride at anchor,
• ride easy,
• ride hawse full,
• run,
• set,
• shift,
• shift about,
• slight stretching,
• song and dance,
• span,
• speak falsely,
• sprawl,
• spread,
• stand,
• steerage,
• steering,
• story,
• straddle,
• stretch,
• stretch out,
• stretch the truth,
• surround,
• sweep,
• take in,
• tale,
• tall story,
• tall tale,
• taradiddle,
• tell a lie,
• tendency,
• tenor,
• thrust out,
• track,
• trend,
• trumped-up story,
• untruth,
• way,
• white lie,
• yarn