LAY DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lay down mean? 

• LAY DOWN (verb)
  The verb LAY DOWN has 1 sense:

1. institute, enact, or establish

  Familiarity information: LAY DOWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAY DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Institute, enact, or establish

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

establish; lay down; make

Context example:

make laws

Hypernyms (to "lay down" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lay down"):

mark; set (establish as the highest level or best performance)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

Holmes traced his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon his face with a little cry of satisfaction.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He watched the type-writer carried out the door with a feeling of relief, then went over and lay down on the bed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At last she crawled over the swaying floor to her bed, and lay down upon it; and Toto followed and lay down beside her.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

At her solicitation I let her take the watch till midnight,—it was then nine o’clock, but I wrapped her in blankets and put an oilskin about her before I lay down.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I'd lay down my life for her—Mas'r Davy—Oh! most content and cheerful!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

All day long he limped in agony, and camp once made, lay down like a dead dog.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But I must away to lay down the beds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once more the night came on, and worn out he lay down under a bush and fell asleep.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When it became noon, and the sun rose higher, I lay down on the grass and was overpowered by a deep sleep.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)