gésir
Meanings
Verb
1. to lie (to be in a horizontal position), especially when dead or wounded (intransitive, archaic or literary, archaic, literary)
2. to be located (intransitive, archaic or literary, archaic, literary)
3. to be buried, hidden (intransitive, archaic or literary, archaic, literary)
Examples7
La victime gisait dans son sang.
The victim was lying in a pool of their own blood.
Son corps gisait sur le sol.
His body was lying on the ground.
Plusieurs personnes gisaient blessées.
Several people lay wounded.
Le soldat gisait blessé sur le sol.
The soldier lay injured on the ground.
La poupée gisait au sol.
The doll lay on the floor.
Sur son lit d'hôpital, il gisait, pâle comme la mort.
On his hospital bed he lay, pale as death.