LIE LOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lie low mean? 

• LIE LOW (verb)
  The verb LIE LOW has 2 senses:

1. keep a low profile, try to be inconspicuous

2. to try to avoid detection especially by police

  Familiarity information: LIE LOW used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIE LOW (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Keep a low profile, try to be inconspicuous

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

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

hide; hide out (be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

To try to avoid detection especially by police

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

After we knock off that liquor store we'll have to lay low for a while

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

hide; hide out (be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

I was sure Henderson, as he calls himself, felt that he was suspected, and that he would lie low and make no move so long as he thought he was in any danger.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So our game surely is to lie low for a time and spy out the land.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)