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lain around

lain around is the past participle of lie around.

Meaning of lie around

Verb

lie around (third-person singular simple present lies around, present participle lying around, simple past lay around, past participle lain around)

  1. To do nothing in particular; to be idle.
    • I spent the day lying around reading a detective novel.
  2. To be in an unknown place.
    • I'm sure that pencil sharpener is lying around somewhere.

Questions about lain around

What is lain around the past participle of?
Lain around is the past participle of lie around.

Words near lain around in the dictionary

  1. laimospheres
  2. lain
  3. lain above
  4. lain ahead
  5. lain along
  6. lain around
  7. lain at someone's door
  8. lain at someone's heart
  9. lain back
  10. lain back and thought of England
  11. lain before

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lain around (page history and authors); lie around (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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