The Crossword Solver found answer to “Action that can be done to the starts of 20 , 35 , 44 and 56 Across”, 4 letters crossword clue. The Crossword Solver finds answers to American-style crosswords, British-style crosswords, general knowledge crosswords and cryptic crossword puzzles.
Answer : LIE
lie, prevarication – n
a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
SYNONYMS
fabricate, fib, prevaricate
EXAMPLES
“I can’t lie to him.”
“Jennifer didn’t lie about her father.”
“You usually lie like a bragging fisherman, so I stopped asking.”
ETYMOLOGY
“speak falsely, tell an untruth for the purpose of misleading,” late 12c., from Old English legan, ligan, earlier leogan “deceive, belie, betray” (class II strong verb; past tense leag, past participle logen), from Proto-Germanic *leuganan (source also of Old Norse ljuga, Danish lyve, Old Frisian liaga, Old Saxon and Old High German liogan, German lügen, Gothic liugan), a word of uncertain etymology, with possible cognates in Old Church Slavonic lugati, Russian luigatĭ; not found in Latin, Greek, or Sanskrit. Emphatic lie through (one’s) teeth is from 1940s.
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