Guide and Lay

Guide

Guide verb - To give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed.

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Lay and guide are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lay" instead a verb "Guide".

Nearby Words: guidance, guided, guideline, guiding

Lay verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.

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Guide and lay are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Guide" instead a verb "Lay".

Nearby Words: laying, laid

soul	guide soul	lay soul
life	guide life	lay life
people	guide people	lay people
hand	guide hand	lay hand
Other words: way, dead, hands, lives.

As she lay dying at age 27, Shogun Iemitsu the Younger asked the former abbot (and only true love for all that his infertility obliged her to bear the children of several other men) Arikoto to guide the eldest of her daughters as a father.

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