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Lie in

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Verb
  1. 1
    To be brought to bed in childbirth. archaic

    "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."

  2. 2
    be in confinement for childbirth wordnet
  3. 3
    To stay in bed (longer than usual). UK

    "I've got a day off tomorrow, so I might lie in till about 11."

  4. 4
    originate (in) wordnet

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