lie back

English

Verb

lie back (third-person singular simple present lies back, present participle lying back, simple past lay back, past participle lain back)

  1. (intransitive) To lie down by moving in a posterior direction, ending up supine.
    Synonyms: (medicine) supinate, resupinate
    Hypernym: lie down
    The imaging technician told him to lie back and then remain still for a minute.
  2. To relax, to exert less effort.
    You can predict that he's going to lie back and take it easy if you let him find out that there's no pressing deadline from the customer on this job.

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