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Definition belie
Etymology 1
From Middle English belyen, beliggen, from Old English belicgan, bilicgan (“to lie around, surround, hedge in, encompass”); equivalent to be- (“around, by”) + lie (to be positioned). Cognate with German beliegen.
Verb
belie (third-person singular simple present belies, present participle belying, simple past belay, past participle belain)
- (transitive, obsolete) To lie around; encompass.
- (transitive, obsolete, of an army) To surround; beleaguer.
Etymology 2
From Middle English belyen, beleo?en, from Old English bel?ogan (“to deceive by lying, be mistaken”), from Proto-Germanic *bileugan? (“to belie”); equivalent to be- (“about”) + lie (to deceive). Cognate with Old Frisian biliaga (“to belie”), Dutch beliegen (“to belie”), German belügen (“to lie to”), Swedish beljuga (“to tell lies about”).
Verb
belie (third-person singular simple present belies, present participle belying, simple past and past participle belied)
- (transitive) To tell lies about; to slander. [from 13th c.]
- (transitive) To give a false representation of, to misrepresent. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive) To contradict, to show (something) to be false. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive, perhaps nonstandard) To conceal the contradictory or ironic presence of (something).
- (transitive, perhaps nonstandard) To show, evince, demonstrate: to show (something) to be present, particularly something deemed contradictory or ironic.
- (obsolete) To mimic; to counterfeit.
- (transitive, obsolete) To fill with lies.
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