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

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