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lying-in

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Noun lying-in has 1 sense
  1. parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
    --1 is a kind of parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
    --1 is a part of pregnancy, gestation, maternity
    --1 has parts: uterine contraction; effacement; asynclitism, obliquity
    --1 has particulars: premature labor, premature labour
Verb lie-in has 2 senses
  1. dwell, consist, lie, belong, lie in - originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"
    --1 is one way to exist, be
    Sample sentence:
    Something is ----ing PP
  2. lie in - be in confinement for childbirth
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
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