lie

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

- telling a liesee also HONEST, TRUE
- to say sth which you know is not true: lie (to sb) (about sth), tell* (sb) a lie, tell* (sb) lies
He must be lying. ◎ She lied about her age. ◎ Did you lie to me?
- an untrue thing that sb says: lie
You mustn't tell lies! ◎ How could you possibly believe such a blatant (= obvious) lie? ◎ The whole book is just a pack of lies (= all lies) .
- a small lie, especially one told by a child: fib; verb: fib
- a person who tells lies: liar, fibber
- a person who tells lies is dishonest; noun (U): dishonesty
I was shocked by her dishonesty.
- to think of sth which is not true: make* sth up, think* sth up
He made up a story about being a famous actor. ◎ You'll have to think up a good excuse.
- to give sb wrong information about sth: mislead* sb, misinform sb
- information which gives you the wrong idea is misleading
to make a misleading statement
- to cheat or trick sb by lying to them: deceive sb
He tried to deceive us into paying double the normal price.
※ more on deceiving DECEIVE
- to make sb believe sth which is not true: take* sb in
I was completely taken in by her story.
- if you get tricked into believing sth which is not true, you fall* for sth
I play the same trick on her every year, and she falls for it every time.
- a person who easily believes lies is gullible
He's so gullible he'll fall for anything.
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- a lie which you believe is harmless, and which you tell sb in order to avoid hurting them: white lie
- the crime of telling a lie in court: perjury (noun U)
- the crime of saying untrue things about sb in public: slander (noun U); verb: slander sb
- an untrue thing that a person says about sb in public: slander
I've never heard such a vicious slander.
- the crime of writing untrue things about sb: libel (noun U); verb: libel sb
The magazine is being sued for libel. ◎ He claims to have been libelled in a newspaper article.
- an untrue thing that a person writes about sb: libel
- an instrument used by the police, etc, in order to know if sb is lying: lie detector

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  Lie, Trygve Lie, Trygve Halvden Lie, prevarication, lie down, rest, dwell, consist, lie in
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up, stand, sit, sit down