Associations to the word «Belie»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
BELIE, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To lie around; encompass.
BELIE, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) (of an army) To surround; beleaguer.
BELIE, verb. (transitive) To tell lies about; to slander. [from 13th c.]
BELIE, verb. (transitive) To give a false representation of, to misrepresent. [from 17th c.]
BELIE, verb. (transitive) To contradict, to show (something) to be false. [from 17th c.]
BELIE, verb. (transitive) (perhaps nonstandard) To be shown false by contradicting (something) that is true; to conceal the contradictory or ironic presence of (something).
BELIE, verb. (transitive) (perhaps nonstandard) To show, evince, demonstrate: to show (something) to be present, particularly something deemed contradictory or ironic.
BELIE, verb. (obsolete) To mimic; to counterfeit.
BELIE, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To fill with lies.
Dictionary definition
BELIE, verb. Be in contradiction with.
BELIE, verb. Represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions".
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.