lays 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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These he now lays by to pay, some day, for the stock which was given him.

From Time Magazine Archive

For this phase, the Castigator lays by his swine-goad, and Author Lewis, no friend of man but an unerring creator, when he likes, of living women, picks up his imagination, some sympathy and a torch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Baluk, his stoic face agonized, lays by his tom-tom and draws his robe over his head in the inferno.

From Time Magazine Archive

The automobile worker regards it as inevitable and lays by savings to tide him over.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lendable money among them is chiefly that of orphans and wards in the hands of executors and guardians, and that which the farmer lays by till he has enough for the purchase in view.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson