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lies to

lies to is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lie to.

Meaning of lie to

Verb

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

  1. To have the sails arranged so as to counteract each other.

Questions about lies to

What is lies to the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lies to is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lie to.

Words near lies to in the dictionary

  1. lies off
  2. lies on the oars
  3. lies over
  4. lies rough
  5. lies through one's teeth
  6. lies to
  7. lies upon
  8. lies waste
  9. lies with
  10. lies-to-children
  11. Liese

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lies to (page history and authors); lie to (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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