laying by

VERB

set aside, store

Synonyms

WEAK

accumulate amass build up bury conserve cumulate garner hide hoard keep lay in preserve put away roll up salt away save spare store up treasure

Antonyms

WEAK

squander use waste

Example Sentences

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Charlie Rowley accidentally gifted Ms Sturgess the fatal nerve agent after finding it disguised in a luxury perfume bottle laying by a bin.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2024

Tables were set up at the temple for flower laying by the public later Saturday.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 2023

Previous studies of how climate change might affect tick-moose interaction have focused on milder winters, which give ticks more time to find hosts while boosting their prospects for successful egg laying by reducing snow cover.

From Fox News • Nov. 22, 2021

Previous academic work has shown that species respond to warming temperatures by earlier timing of biological events, for example egg laying by birds, budding of plants and flying of insects.

From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2019

Thus, an industrious man working daily, and laying by daily, attains at last the possession of an accumulated sum of wealth, to which he has absolute right.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John