Verb

(obsolete) To lie around; encompass.

(transitive, obsolete, of an army) To surround; beleaguer.

Verb

To tell lies about; to slander.

* Shakespeare

Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him.

To give a false representation of, to misrepresent.

* Shakespeare

Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts.

*, II.2.6.iv:

He found it by experience, and made good use of it in his own person, if Plutarch belie him not […].

To contradict, to show (something) to be false.

* Dryden

Their trembling hearts belie their boastful tongues.

Her obvious nervousness belied what she said.

To be shown false by contradicting (something) that is true; to conceal the contradictory or ironic presence of (something).

* 2013 , Elizabeth Koh, "Fighting Pest, Farmers Find Strange Ally: A Drought," New York Times, August 31, 2013

The rosy outlook belies a struggle to achieve statewide eradication that has persisted since the insect first crossed the border from Mexico around 1892.

His calm demeanor belied his inner sense of guilt.

To show, evince, demonstrate: to show (something) to be present, particularly something deemed contradictory or ironic.

* 1993 , Carol A. Mossman, Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-41586-6, page 28:

A host of evidence is adduced by the accused, evidence whose sometimes self-contradictory nature belies a certain desperation.

(obsolete) To mimic; to counterfeit.

(Dryden)

(obsolete) To fill with lies.

* Shakespeare

The breath of slander doth belie all corners of the world.

Verb

To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.

* 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

The blind man, whom he had not been able to cure with the pomade, had gone back to the hill of Bois-Guillaume, where he told the travellers of the vain attempt of the druggist, to such an extent, that Homais when he went to town hid himself behind the curtains of the "Hirondelle" to avoid meeting him.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)

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To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner

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Verb

To beat with a whip made from hide.

* 1891 , Robert Weir, J. Moray Brown, Riding

He ran last week, and he was hided , and he was out on the day before yesterday, and here he is once more, and he knows he's got to run and to be hided again.