lie with

English

Verb

lie with (third-person singular simple present lies with, present participle lying with, simple past lay with, past participle lain with)

1. (euphemistic, archaic) To have sex with someone.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 13:14:

     Howbeit hee would not hearken vnto her voice, but being stronger then shee, forced her, and lay with her.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Canrum:

     While this band was not especially powerful, Shiagur was a female warlord – and one of the few remaining fertile females, at that. She had, through viciousness and cunning, parlayed her unique value into a position of power. Krogan males competed for the right to join her band and lie with her.

Synonyms

• (euphemistic) know, lie by, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Related terms

• if you lie with dogs you will get fleas

Translations

to have sex

• Hebrew: לשכב
• Latin: concumbō, cubō cum (+ ablative), iaceō cum (+ ablative)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ligge med

  Nynorsk: ligge med, liggje med, ligga med, liggja med

• Swedish: ligga med (sv)

Anagrams

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