LIE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
He lies awake at night, worrying. A pen lay on the desk. B1 [ I + adv/prep, L ] present participle lying | past tense lay | past participle lain The ship lies off (= is positioned near) the coast of Spain. [ I + adv/prep ] present participle lying | past tense lay | past participle lainC2 [ I usually + adv/prep ] present participle lying | past tense lay | past participle lain · If responsibility, blame, a decision, a choice, etc. lies with someone, they have responsibility, must make the decision, etc.:Her main research interest lies in the philosophical analysis of bioethical concepts. ... Part of the answer lies in the phonetic redundancy of the signal itself, and the rest in the effects of that redundancy on auditory processing.The hardest part of the competition still lies ahead of us.
