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LIE AROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lie around mean? 

LIE AROUND (verb)
  The verb LIE AROUND has 1 sense:

1. hang around idlyplay

  Familiarity information: LIE AROUND used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LIE AROUND (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Hang around idly

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

lie about; lie around

Context example:

She did all the work while he lay around

Hypernyms (to "lie around" is one way to...):

idle; laze; slug; stagnate (be idle; exist in a changeless situation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP


 Context examples 


A UK-led group of European astronomers used the MUSE and X-shooter instruments on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile to study an ongoing collision between two galaxies, known collectively as IRAS F23128-5919, that lie around 600 million light-years from Earth.

(Stars Born in Winds from Supermassive Black Holes, ESO)



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