lie with

verb

have sexual intercourse with

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This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm

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Adam knew Eve

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Were you ever intimate with this man?

• Syn:

↑sleep together, ↑roll in the hay, ↑love, ↑make out, ↑make love, ↑sleep with, ↑get laid, ↑have sex, ↑know, ↑do it, ↑be intimate, ↑have intercourse, ↑have it away, ↑have it off, ↑screw, ↑fuck, ↑jazz, ↑eff, ↑hump, ↑bed, ↑have a go at it, ↑bang, ↑get it on, ↑bonk

• Derivationally related forms:

↑bed (for: ↑bed), ↑fucker (for: ↑fuck), ↑fucking (for: ↑fuck), ↑fuck (for: ↑fuck), ↑screw (for: ↑screw), ↑screwing (for: ↑screw), ↑love (for: ↑love), ↑lover (for: ↑love)

• Usage Domain: ↑archaism (for: ↑screw)

• Hypernyms: ↑copulate, ↑mate, ↑pair, ↑couple

• Hyponyms: ↑take, ↑have, ↑fornicate

• Verb Group: ↑neck, ↑make out

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s somebody

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Somebody ——s somebody

(for: ↑hump)

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Somebody ——s somebody

(for: ↑fuck)

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Somebody ——s somebody

(for: ↑screw)

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1) (of a responsibility or problem) be attributable to (someone)

the ultimate responsibility for the violence lies with the country's president

2) archaic have sexual intercourse with

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lie with [phrasal verb]

1 lie with (someone or something) not used in the progressive tenses

— used to say who has the blame or responsibility for something

The blame lies with their mother for not watching them closely enough.

Responsibility for the accident lies with the company.

2 lie with (someone) literary : to have sex with (someone)

when he first lay with her

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Main Entry: ↑lie