lie with

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lie with (third-person singular simple present lies with, present participle lying with, simple past lay with, past participle lain with)

  1. (transitive, US) To be the responsibility or duty of (someone).
    That task lies with you.
  2. (euphemistic, archaic) To have sex with someone.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, 2 Samuel 13:14:
      Howbeit hee would not hearken vnto her voice, but being stronger then shee, forced her, and lay with her.
    • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Canrum:
      While this band was not especially powerful, Shiagur was a female warlord – and one of the few remaining fertile females, at that. She had, through viciousness and cunning, parlayed her unique value into a position of power. Krogan males competed for the right to join her band and lie with her.

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