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. (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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