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Disambiguating "lie" from "lay"

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Henry Whitney 2019-09-18 09:51:07 -04:00
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@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ The term "deceive" means to cause someone to believe something that is not true.
* The descriptive terms "deceitful" and "deceptive" have the same meaning and are used in the same contexts.
* To "entice" someone is to deceive him into thinking that he will enjoy doing something evil.
* One person will "flatter" another by praising him falsely so that the other person will do what the speaker wants him to do.
* To "lie" to someone or to tell a "lie" is not the same as to lie down to go to sleep.
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@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ These terms can have figurative meanings relating to death.
* The expression "fall asleep" means start sleeping, or, figuratively, die.
* To "sleep with one’s fathers" means to die, as one’s ancestors have, or to be dead, as one's ancestors are.
* To "lie down" with others who have died means to die, as they have died, or to be dead, as they are dead.
* The word "lie" often appears in connection with the idea of sleep. This "lie" refers to lying down on a bed or other sleeping place, not to saying things that are untrue.
* The phrases "lie with" and "sleep with," when referring to what a man and a woman do together, is a euphemism for them having sexual relations. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-euphemism]])
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