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Action that can be done to the starts of 20 , 35 , 44 and 56 Across Crossword Clue [Solved]

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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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