lie down
— phrasal verb with lie uk/laɪ/us/laɪ/verb
A2 to move into a position in which your body is flat, usually in order to sleep or rest:
He lay down on the bed and tried to relax.
More examples
- Why don't you lie down on the sofa for a while?
- The doctor asked him to lie down on his stomach.
- We all lay down on the floor.
- The animals lay down on the hay.
- I'm so tired - I need to lie down.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Reclining
- fallen
- full-length
- lain
- lay
- lean
- lean (sth) against/on sth
- lie around
- lounge around (sth)
- recline
- recumbent
- repose
- sink
- sink into sth
- sit
- stretch
- stretch (yourself) out
- sup
- supinate
- supination
- supine
See more results »