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LIED
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Irregular inflected form: lieder
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("lied" is a kind of...):
song; vocal (a short musical composition with words)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb lie
Context examples:
Up to now you may have spoken the truth, but now I know that you have lied.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"I store my food in Maria's safe and in her pantry," he lied.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
As there were no indications of bootmarks about this ditch, I was absolutely sure not only that the Cunninghams had again lied, but that there had never been any unknown man upon the scene at all.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Still, society associated my name and person with hers; I yet saw her and heard her daily: something of her breath (faugh!) mixed with the air I breathed; and besides, I remembered I had once been her husband—that recollection was then, and is now, inexpressibly odious to me; moreover, I knew that while she lived I could never be the husband of another and better wife; and, though five years my senior (her family and her father had lied to me even in the particular of her age), she was likely to live as long as I, being as robust in frame as she was infirm in mind.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Then their talk turned to minstrelsy, and the stranger knight drew forth a cittern, upon which he played the minne-lieder of the north, singing the while in a high cracked voice of Hildebrand and Brunhild and Siegfried, and all the strength and beauty of the land of Almain.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But if I have hit upon the true explanation of this one small phenomenon, then in an instant the case rises from the commonplace to the exceedingly remarkable, for it can only mean that Lady Brackenstall and her maid have deliberately lied to us, that not one word of their story is to be believed, that they have some very strong reason for covering the real criminal, and that we must construct our case for ourselves without any help from them.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"She lied," he said aloud.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
When we were on a house-party together up in Warwick, she left a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down, and then lied about it—and suddenly I remembered the story about her that had eluded me that night at Daisy's.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
When we came into the station he was next to me and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm—and so I told him I'd have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
