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laid-up

ADJECTIVE
sick
Synonyms
WEAK
ailing bedridden broken down confined debilitated declining defective delicate diseased disordered down feeble feverish frail funny green hospitalized ill impaired imperfect in a bad way in poor health incurable indisposed infected infirm invalid lousy mean nauseated not so hot peaked poorly qualmish queasy rickety rocky rotten run down sick as a dog suffering tottering under medication under the weather unhealthy unwell weak wobbly

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Insurance companies don’t pay primary-care doctors to see patients in hospital; doctors might not know if a patient is laid up with a broken hip or beginning cancer treatment.

From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025

“You can’t be laid up like this too much longer,” she insists, and it’s a credit to Deadwyler that even in this absurdist moment, we see the fear under her armor.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025

The reason that it matters that many of us will be laid up with the regular old seasonal flu is something called co-infection.

From Slate • Dec. 31, 2024

The ship missed the summer season laid up in Troon, Ayr, Greenock and Birkenhead for repairs - but problems with its variable pitch propellers persisted.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023

But now I was laid up, and here was a girl handling my work about as good as I could.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson