Crossword-Solution: LIE 3 letters, 1421 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 3

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Lie	n.	See Lye.
Lie	n.	A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive.
Lie	n.	A fiction; a fable; an untruth.
Lie	n.	Anything which misleads or disappoints.
Lie	v. i.	To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive; to say or do that which is intended to deceive another, when he a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.
Lie	adj.	To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin.
Lie	adj.	To be situated; to occupy a certain place; as, Ireland lies west of England; the meadows lie along the river; the ship lay in port.
Lie	adj.	To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall.
Lie	adj.	To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; -- with in.
Lie	adj.	To lodge; to sleep.
Lie	adj.	To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
Lie	adj.	To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
Lie	n.	The position or way in which anything lies; the lay, as of land or country.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
LIE	anagram	EIL, ELI, IEL, ILE, LEI

We have 1421 clues for the answer “LIE”

Clue	Answers
"A ___ cannot live": Martin Luther King Jr.	1 answer
"A ___ of the Mind" (Sam Shepard drama)	1 answer
"A ___ of the Mind," Shepard drama	1 answer
"Adjust" the facts	1 answer
"Alternative fact"	1 answer
"Bald-faced" statement	1 answer
"Bald-faced" thing	1 answer
"Ball don't ___" (trash talk from a hoopster)	1 answer
"Barefaced" thing	1 answer
"Children and fools cannot ___.”—John Heywood.	1 answer
"Half the Truth is often a great ___" (Benjamin Franklin)	1 answer
"He maketh me to ___ down in green ..."	1 answer
"Hips Don't __": Shakira hit	1 answer
"Hips Don't ___" Shakira	1 answer
"I already have other plans," often	1 answer
"I can't tell a ___."	1 answer
"I cannot tell a ___"	1 answer
"I cannot tell a ___" (George Washington's claim)	1 answer
"I didn't cheat," perhaps	1 answer
"I didn't know I was speeding, officer," probably	1 answer
"I gave at the office," e.g.	1 answer
"I never saw your text," perhaps	1 answer
"I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty ___" (Shakira quote)	1 answer
"I promise I won't laugh," often	1 answer
"I was just about to call you!," e.g.	1 answer
"I was stuck in traffic," maybe	1 answer
"I wasn't looking at porn," e.g.	1 answer
"I wouldn't ___ to you, baby / It's mainly a physical thing"	1 answer
"I'd love to, but I already have plans that day," sometimes	1 answer
"I'll be there in five minutes," often	1 answer
"I'm actually working on it as we speak," often	1 answer
"It wasn't me," in the song "It Wasn't Me", e.g.	1 answer
"It's not a ___ if you believe it" (George Costanza)	1 answer
"It's not you, it's me," maybe	1 answer
"Just what I wanted," often	1 answer
"Just wrapping up the project," maybe	1 answer
"Let sleeping dogs ___"	1 answer
"Little white" statement	1 answer
"Love the Way You ___" (Eminem ft. Rihanna)	1 answer
"No ___ can live forever": Martin Luther King Jr.	1 answer
"Not gonna ___ ..."	1 answer
"Nothing fools you better than the ___ you tell yourself": Teller	1 answer
"Of course I remember you!," often	1 answer
"Of course, I remember you!," perhaps	1 answer
"On my way!" text, maybe	1 answer
"On my way," often	1 answer
"Somebody told a ___ one day . . ." (MLK)	1 answer
"The answer to this clue is an adjective," say	1 answer
"The check is in the mail," maybe	1 answer
"The check is in the mail," often	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

RAAE

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with LIE (5)

However, to make amends he showed them how to lie out flat on a strong wind that was going their way, and this was such a pleasant change that they tried it several times and found that they could sleep thus with security.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Tomorrow ere fresh Morning streak the East With first approach of light, we must be ris’n, And at our pleasant labour, to reform Yon flourie Arbors, yonder Allies green, Our walks at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manuring, and require More hands then ours to lop thir wanton growth: Those Blossoms also, and those dropping Gumms, That lie bestrowne unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease; Mean while, as Nature wills, Night bids us rest.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

She let him lie uninterred for five days, and on the sixth day, not knowing what else to do, she buried him in her own head.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Adj.; want preparation, lack preparation; lie fallow; s'embarquer sans biscuits[Fr]; live from hand to mouth.

Roget’s Thesaurus Peter Mark Roget 1991

There are few scenes more gratifying than a spring plowing in that country, where the furrows of a single field often lie a mile in length, and the brown earth, with such a strong, clean smell, and such a power of growth and fertility in it, yields itself eagerly to the plow; rolls away from the shear, not even dimming the brightness of the metal, with a soft, deep sigh of happiness.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Quotes with LIE (3)

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov

I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

Veronica Roth Allegiant

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love-I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A…

Edgar Allan Poe

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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 2,052 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).