Lurk vs Belie - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between lurk and belie

is that lurk is to remain concealed in order to ambush while belie is (obsolete) to lie around; encompass or belie can be to tell lies about; to slander.

As a noun lurk

is the act of lurking.

lurk

English

Verb

(en verb)

To remain concealed in order to ambush.

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To remain unobserved.

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.

To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.

* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .

if we find the sophist lurking , we must round him up by royal command of the argument

(Internet) To view an internet forum without posting comments.

Derived terms

* lurker

Noun

(en noun)

The act of lurking.

* 1921 : George Colby Borley, The Lost Horizon

There were enemies on the lurk and time was against him.

* 1955 : John Maxwell Edmonds Longus, Daphnis et Chloe

... barked furiously and made at him as at a wolf, and before he could wholly rise from the lurk because of the sudden consternation, ...

* 2004 : Charles Reade, A Simpleton

At two PM a man had called on him, and had produced one of his advertisements, and had asked him if that was all square—no bobbies on the lurk .

belie

English

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From (etyl) belyen, beliggen, from (etyl) belicgan, . Cognate with German beliegen.

Verb

(obsolete) To lie around; encompass.

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

Etymology 2

From (etyl) belyen, .

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.

Synonyms

* (to give a false representation) misrepresent * (to tell lies about) calumniate * (to contradict or show to be false) contradict, give lie to, give the lie to