Lain Synonyms and Antonyms

lān
To make untrue declarations
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. prevaricated
  2. forsworn
  3. fibbed
  4. falsified
Have a place in relation to something else
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. rested
  2. lazed
  3. stretched
  4. lolled
  5. sprawled
  6. reposed
Antonyms:
  1. sat
  2. stood
  3. straightened
  4. arisen
To assume a prostrate position
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. retired
  2. stretched
  3. couched
  4. reposed
  5. reclined
Antonyms:
  1. arisen
  2. risen
To be situated
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. endured
  2. prevailed
  3. extended

Words Related to Lain

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Lain Sentence Examples

  • Their residence must have lain chiefly in Indi.Vis.

  • His eyes traveled to where his father had lain.

  • Its colors were pale purple and the bed beneath him more comfortable than any he'd lain in.

  • The bullet had caught him full in the chest, driving him backward into the scooped out grotto where his uncle had lain for more than half a century.

  • During the progress of the works, however, he acted as surveyor, and accumulated in that lucrative employment a sum of several thousand pounds, discovered after his death in an old iron chest, which had evidently lain unopened for above thirty years.

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