TO LAY DOWN

Definition: TO LAY DOWN

TO LAY DOWN

1. (a) To stake as a wager. (b) To yield; to relinquish; to surrender; as, to lay down one's life; to lay down one's arms. (c) To assert or advance, as a proposition or principle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO LAY DOWN

Order your men to lay down their weapons and surrender (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

Timmy would lay down his life for you if Timmy had a life to lay down. (Passions; writing credit: Jean Chapot; Nelly Kaplan)

But I'm not willing to lay down and die (An Innocent Man; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Sometimes you just want to lay down and die (You're Only Human (Second Wind); performing artist: Billy Joel)

I need to lay down (Die Another Day; performing artist: Madonna; writing credit: Madonna)

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Books

• To Lay Down One's Life for You, Brother (reference)

  (more book examples)

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It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

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Human Rights

South Africa

Nonstriking security guards were harassed by groups of strikers while taking public transportation; the groups stripped them, forced them to lay down in the dirt, and beat them. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Danish

kompetenceregler i konventionen af 27.9.1968. (various references)

Dutch

de in het Verdrag van 27.9.1968 gegeven bevoegdheidsregels. (various references)

French

tracer. (various references)

German

hinlegen (deposit, lay down, recline, settle down, shove down), die Zuständigkeitsregeln des Übereinkommens vom 27.9.1968, aufzeichnen (chart, draw, graph, keep a record, log, make a note, note, plot, record, sketch, to record, write down). (various references)

Greek 

καθορίζω (decide, define, designate, determine, map, quote, settle on, specify). (various references)

Hungarian

tartósít (can, to can, to conserve, to creosote, to process), savanyít (acidify, sour, to sour, to wind), pincében tart, pincében tárol, pincében raktároz, leterít (fell, overbear, prostrate, to coldcock, to cold-cock, to lay out, to prostrate), leszögez (to pin down, to put down), lerak (deposit, dump, lay, lay down, put down, to depose, to deposit, to dump, to land, to park, to put down, to unburden, to unload), lefektet (laid, lay, lay to rest, put to bed, put to sleep, to bed, to lay, to put to bed, to repose), felhagy vmivel (to desist from sg, to get out of sg, to give it best, to give up, to go off), defektet kap (to break down), bekerít (encompass, fence in, hunt down, mure, surround, to circumvent, to close in, to encircle, to enclose, to encompass, to fence, to fence in, to gird, to hedge in, to hem in, to hunt down, to rail). (various references)

Italian

le norme di competenza contemplate dalla convenzione del 27.9.1968. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

寝かせる (to ferment, to put to bed). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねかせる (to ferment, to put to bed). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay aylay ownday.(various references)

Portuguese

constar (be in). (various references)

Spanish

establecer (base, enter into, erect, establish, establishes, form, found, identify, institute, justify, lay down, locate, nail down, naturalize, put up, raise, set, set down, set up, settle, substantiate, take up). (various references)

Swedish

fastställa regler för hur artikel... (to lay down detailed rules for the application of article...), bestämma hur underkommittéerna skall vara sammansatta (to lay down the methods of composition of the subcommittees). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: dalton.

-4 letters: adown, atony, dooly, dotal, downy, lawny, loony, nodal, notal, noway, talon, tawny, toady, today, tolan, tonal, tondo, towny, toyon, waldo, wanly, woald, woody, wooly.

-5 letters: alow, alto, awny, awol, dato, dawn, dawt, doat, dolt, dona, doty, down, lady, land, lawn, load, loan, loon, loot, lota, lown, nolo, nota, nowt, odyl, oldy.