/ English Dictionary |
LAY UP
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disable or confine, as with an illness
Example:
She was laid up with pneumonia for six weeks
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "lay up" is one way to...):
disable; disenable; incapacitate (make unable to perform a certain action)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something