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Definition: Lie Low |
Lie LowVerb1. 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. |
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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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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Lowness | Verb: be low; Adjective: lie low, lie flat; underlie; crouch, slouch, wallow, grovel; lower; (depress). |
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Expression using "lie low": To lie low. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 сохранять сдержанность. (various references) ostati skriven. (various references) estar agazapado. (various references) ligga lågt (keep down), hålla sig undan (lie doggo, scrimshank). (various references) 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) приховатися, приникнути до землі. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | latita, latitant, latitat, latitavit. (various references) |
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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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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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