Meaning

1 senses

  1. (US, euphemistic, informal)To commit perjury (as a police officer).

Origin

Blend of testify + lie. Possibly a back-formation from the noun testilying, which appeared

Blend of testify + lie. Possibly a back-formation from the noun testilying, which appeared a few years earlier and is more common.

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Forms

testilies, testilying, testilied, testilied
Base formtestilie · to testilie
3rd person singulartestilies
Present participletestilying
Past simpletestilied
Past participletestilied

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytestilie
he, she, ittestilies

Past simpleLesson

all personstestilied

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave testilied
he, she, ithas testilied

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill testilie

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
testetestertesticletestifyB2testimonyB2testosteronetestytetanus
testilie — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto