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Lie Low

Definition: Lie Low

Lie Low

Verb

1. Keep a low profile, try to be inconspicuous.

2. To try to avoid detection esp. by police; "After we knock off that liquor store we'll have to lay low for a while.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Lie Low

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Literature

Lie Low (To). To conceal oneself or one's intentions.
"All this while Brer Rabbit lay low."- Uncle Remus. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Synonyms within Context: Lie Low

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Lowness

Verb: be low; Adjective: lie low, lie flat; underlie; crouch, slouch, wallow, grovel; lower; (depress).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Lie Low

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Music

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Expression: Lie Low

Expression using "lie low": To lie low. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: Lie Low

Language Translations for "lie low"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏حافظ (custodian, look after, maintain, preservative, preserve, take part, tutelary). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

避風 (stay away from trouble, take shelter from the wind). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zùstat ve skrytu. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lymyillä (hide oneself, keep in hiding), piileksiä (hide, lie hidden, lie in hiding). (various references)

   

French

  

se cacher (lie up), rester caché. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξαπλώνω χαμηλά. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לשמור על פרופיל מוך. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

lapul (to couch, to lay low, to lie low, to play dead, to play possum, to skulk), mélyen fekszik, alacsonyan fekszik. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ielay owlay

   

Russian 

  

сохранять сдержанность. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ostati skriven. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estar agazapado. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ligga lågt (keep down), hålla sig undan (lie doggo, scrimshank). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

susup beklemek, saklanmak (burrow, bury oneself, cover oneself, hide, hide oneself, hide out, lie up, shelter oneself, take cover), niyetini gizlemek, gizlenmek (bury oneself, ensconce oneself, go underground, hide oneself, hide out, lurk, shelter oneself, skulk, take cover). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

приховатися, приникнути до землі. (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Lie Low

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

latita, latitant, latitat, latitavit. (various references)

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Anagrams: Lie Low

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-l-l-o-w"

-2 letters: lowe, lwei, well, wile, will.

-3 letters: ell, ill, lei, lie, low, oil, ole, owe, owl, woe.

-4 letters: el, li, lo, oe, ow, we, wo.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-l-l-o-w"
 

+1 letter: lowlier, lowlife, owllike.

 

+2 letters: billowed, bowllike, lowliest, lowlifer, lowlifes, lowlives, pillowed, willowed, willower, wolflike, woollier, woollies, woollike.

 

+3 letters: bellowing, billowier, blowflies, bowelling, dowelling, fellowing, flowerily, glowflies, lowlifers, lowlihead, lowliness, mellowing, outwilled, rowelling, towelling, willowers, willowier, willpower, woolliest, worldlier, yellowfin, yellowing, yellowish.

 

+4 letters: billowiest, disallowed, downhiller, fellowship, flowerlike, goodwilled, lowliheads, pillowcase, sowbellies, towellings, trowelling, wildflower, wildfowler, willowiest, willowlike, willowware, willpowers, woolliness, worldliest, yellowfins, yellowtail.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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