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beliebe‧lie /bɪˈlaɪ/ verb (past tense and past participle belied, present participle belying) [transitive] VERB TABLEbelie |
Present | I, you, we, they | belie | | he, she, it | belies | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | belied | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have belied | | he, she, it | has belied | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had belied | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will belie | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have belied |
- Two large tears belied Rosalie's brave words.
- With a quickness that belied her age, she ran across the road.
- Again, as with the McCone Commission, surfaces belied depths.
- He wore shorts and a T-shirt that revealed well-muscled legs and arms and a strong neck that belied the grizzled hair.
- The bright October day belied the cold wind.
- The Chamber Symphony No. 2, begun in 1906 and completed in 1939, belies its fearsome reputation.
- The score belies the ferocious chessboard duel that we have witnessed over the past month and a half.
- The subjects, even those in synthetically casual poses, have a rigid alertness that belies their awareness of the camera.
- Their pasty faces - the result of long periods underground - belie their extraordinary strength and tenacity.
NOUN► fact· Tuscan columns in the Great Hall and a magnificent new entrance belied the fact that this was a small house.· But this piece of ideological mystification is belied by the facts. 1to give someone a false idea about something: Her pleasant manner belied her true character.2to show that something cannot be true or real: His cheerful smile belied his words. |