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laid up en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Unable to move about normally due to illness or injury, especially when confined to bed.
    • He was still laid up in bed with boils and gout when the committee first met. 2003 July 7, Walter Isaacson, “How They Chose These Words”, in Time:
    • For days Ailie had an absent eye and a sad face, and it so fell out that in all that time young Heriotside, who had scarce missed a day, was laid up with a broken arm and never came near her. 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
    • Flesh occasionally feels stalemated, more laid up than at home. 2000, Arthur Michael Saltzman, This Mad "instead": Governing Metaphors in Contemporary American Fiction, →ISBN, page 12:
  2. (not-comparable) Stored at a dock or other place of safety.
    • The ship was laid up until repairs could commence.

laid up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of lay up
    form of lay up