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English
Verb
lie in (third-person singular simple present lies in, present participle lying in, simple past lay in, past participle lain in)
- (archaic) To be brought to bed in childbirth.
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 467:he had been driven to it by the distress he mentioned, the greatest indeed imaginable, that of five hungry children, and a wife lying in of the sixth, in the utmost want and misery.
- (UK) To stay in bed (longer than usual).
I've got a day off tomorrow, so I might lie in till about 11.
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