lie down

present singular third person lies down · participle present lying down · past lay down · participle past lain down

1. intransitiveTo assume a horizontal position.

   Lie down on the bed until you feel better.

   Antonyms: get up

   1. imperativeintransitiveA standard command to a herding dog to assume this position, owing to its effect on the herd's movement.

      Antonyms: get up

2. intransitiveTo be lazy or remiss.

   He never got promoted because he was always lying down on the job.

   1 more example

   They may have finished 11 points behind West Ham and lost both league games, conceding eight goals, but the Tangerine dream remains alive. Holloway said: “We won’t get a bigger test than West Ham but we’ve got one chance. If you’d asked me last summer when I lost all those players I’d have said this was a dead duck, but we don’t lie down at this club.”

   2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph

3. intransitiveTo submit passively.

   I'm not going to lie down and take this!

4. euphemisticTo have sexual intercourse (with).