EGAVE

lain

About 1.49 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb past participle of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
    He had lain there for many hours.
  2. verb past participle of lay (“to put down”)
  3. verb To conceal, keep quiet about. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

Similar words

reposed reclined spent visited coated iain dryads remained stayed sprawled

Often followed by

in down dormant on there for with awake at

Word family

lie

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