lie-down

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[sing.] (BrE, informal) a short rest, especially on a bed: I'm going to have a lie-down before dinner.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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lie-downEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus lie-downEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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licentiate licentious lichen lick licking licorice lid lidded lido lie lied lie detector

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