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lain back

lain back is the past participle of lie back.

Meaning of lie back

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To lie down by moving in a posterior direction, ending up supine.
    • The imaging technician told him to lie back and then remain still for a minute.
    Synonyms:
    supinate, resupinate
  2. To relax, to exert less effort.
    • You can predict that he's going to lie back and take it easy if you let him find out that there's no pressing deadline from the customer on this job.

Questions about lain back

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

Words near lain back in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lain back (page history and authors); lie back (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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