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lay up

verb as in hurt, incapacitate

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The result: Birds lay up to three or four times as many eggs as in nature.

He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into Magron: at Machmas he shall lay up his carriages.

Some money I do and can lay up, but not much, being worth now above L700, besides goods of all sorts.

If I can persuade him to store his autos and lay up his yacht and sell off his polo ponies—I'll try it, anyhow.

If no one was to lay up money, there would be no one to pay for work, yet toil was considered to be a duty.

He does it just as men lay away money for ‘a rainy day,’ as we say, and as squirrels lay up a store of nuts for the cold weather.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lay up, such as: beat up, confine, disable, harm, hospitalize, and injure.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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