LAY UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lay up mean? 

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

1. disable or confine, as with an illness

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAY UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disable or confine, as with an illness

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

She was laid up with pneumonia for six weeks

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

 Context examples 

Money doesn't stay in his pocket long enough to lay up any.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was delighted, inquired who lived in this old castle, and was told that several captive princesses were kept there by a spell, and spun all day to lay up money to buy their liberty.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It never was a fashionable school, and the Professor did not lay up a fortune, but it was just what Jo intended it to be—'a happy, homelike place for boys, who needed teaching, care, and kindness'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)