lie to

verb

lay to; lain to; lying to; lies to

intransitive verb

of a ship
: to stay stationary with head to windward

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Cloth, 60, faces seven counts of wire fraud for allegedly lying to investors about how their money would be used. — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 July 2026 Paul has led a yearslong effort to punish him for allowing NIAID to fund research that allegedly enhanced the coronavirus’s ability to harm people, and for allegedly lying to Congress and the American people about that fact. — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 29 July 2026 Paul has accused Fauci of lying to Congress by denying that the NIH funded that type of research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, and has encouraged the Justice Department to prosecute Fauci on those grounds. — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 29 July 2026 Among other allegations, Paul has accused Fauci of covering up the origins of the virus that causes Covid — which the senator believes emerged from a lab leak in China — and lying to Congress. — Helen Branswell, STAT, 29 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for lie to

Word History

First Known Use

1711, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of lie to was in 1711

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“Lie to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lie%20to. Accessed 2 Aug. 2026.

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