Synonyms for lay up
lay up

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1. lay-up, layupverb

   a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)

   Synonyms:
   layup, lay-up

2. lay upverb

   disable or confine, as with an illness

   "She was laid up with pneumonia for six weeks"

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1. lay up

   Synonyms:
   store, provide, treasure up, lay in

2. lay up

   Synonyms:
   confine to the bed or the house

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1. lay up

   Synonyms:
   store, treasure, save, hoard, garner, confine, disable

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How to use lay up in a sentence?

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?

2. Phil Shearer:

   This is the busiest I have seen the lay-up industry for a long time, probably since at least 1993, 1993 was bad, but the container and bulk markets were not also down.

3. Hesiod:

   If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great.