Laid Up

Definition: Laid Up

Laid Up

Adjective

1. Ill and usually confined; "laid up with a bad cold".

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Synonym: Laid Up

Disease

Adjective: diseased; ailing; Verb: ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather; valetudinary.

Crosswords: Laid Up

Laid Up (1999)

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Laid up during the early 1900s. This photograph is printed on a stereograph card. Credit: NAVY.

Brazilian Sailors working on one of the ship's 40mm twin gun mounts, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 27 March 1951. Previously USS Philadelphia (CL-41), transferred to Brazil in January 1951, Barroso was then undergoing a pre-commissioning overhaul. USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) and an escort aircraft carrier are laid up in the background. Credit: NAVY.

Some of the eighty reserve destroyers in San Diego harbor, part of some 260 destroyers laid up there and at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photograph dated 29 December 1926. Identifiable ships present include (from left to right): USS Kennison (DD-138); USS Jacob Jones (DD-130); USS Aulick (DD-258); USS Babbitt (DD-128); USS Twiggs (DD-127); and USS Badger (DD-126). Credit: NAVY.

Seen from on board another ship, probably while laid up off the Washington Navy Yard, D.C., in 1865-66. Photo mounted on a stereograph card. Note Stonewall's stern decoration. Credit: NAVY.

Laid up at the League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa the late 1800s. Another monitor is alongside, at left. Credit: NAVY.

Laid up, prior to World War I. Built by Harlan and Hollingsworth at Wilmington, Delaware, this yacht was ordered taken over for U.S. Navy service abroad on 14 July 1917 and assigned the identification number SP-432. However, these orders were cancelled on 27 September 1917 without any action being taken. The photograph, showing Oneida without her funnel, suggests that she was in poor condition, and thus unsuitable for Navy use. Credit: NAVY.

Laid up alongside a smaller yacht, prior to World War I. Oneida was ordered taken over for U.S. Navy service abroad on 14 July 1917 and assigned the identification number SP-432. However, these orders were cancelled on 27 September 1917. The photograph, showing her without a smokestack, suggests that she was in poor condition, and thus unsuitable for Navy use. Credit: NAVY.

Production. Submarine chasers. Out of commission for the duration. A pleasure yacht is laid up at the yard of an Eastern boat builder now making subchasers and other Navy boats exclusively. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress.

Laid up merchant ships at Stony Point. View from above. Credit: Library of Congress.

Panarama [sic] of United States Engineer Depot at New Orleans, La., showing barge and quarterboat under construction and Fourth District Plant laid up. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The same measures governed the possession of land too: whatsoever he tilled and reaped, laid up and made use of, before it spoiled, that was his peculiar right; whatsoever he enclosed, and could feed, and make use of, the cattle and product was also his. (Second Treatise of Government)

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When chestnuts were ripe I laid up half a bushel for winter.

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Expressions using "laid up": be laid up ♦ be laid up with. Additional references.

Afrikaans

bedlêend (bedridden, confined to one's bed, laid). (various references)

Albanian

i vënë mënjanë, i thekur (browned, hardened, mature, toasted), i rezervuar (booked, offish, reserve, self contained, stand offish, unobtrusive, withdrawn), i ngulur (intent, persevering), i mbyllur (barred, cagey, cagy, close, closed, confined, enclosed, finished, glued, landlocked, locked, made, pent up, reserved, sealed, self contained, shut, shut in, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconversable, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn), i çmontuar. (various references)

Bulgarian 

повален съм (be laid up). (various references)

Chinese 

病�' (be down with an illness, be laid up). (various references)

Dutch

bedlegerig (bedridden, confined to one's bed). (various references)

Esperanto

litmalsana (bedridden, confined to one's bed). (various references)

Finnish

olla vuoteen omana (be bedridden, be laid up, keep one's bed), olla talviteloilla (be laid up for the winter), maata sairaana (be down, be laid up). (various references)

French

chômage du navire (laid up ship). (various references)

German

Liegezeit des Schiffes (laid up ship), liegen (be, be laid up, be located, be recumbent, be situated, fall, hang, lain, lie, lie on its side, point, recline, recumbency, rest, stand, to lie (lay), aufliegen (be displayed, be laid out, be laid up, be on, be on the turntable, be published, lie on top, rest on top). (various references)

Hungarian

raktározott (be laid up). (various references)

Italian

costretto a letto (bedridden, confined to one's bed, laid). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

風邪で臥っている (to be laid up with a cold), 床に就く (to be laid up, to be sick in bed, to go to bed), 平臥 (be laid up, lie down), 寝込む (to be laid up for a long time, to sleep, to stay in bed). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ね�"む (to be laid up for a long time, to sleep, to stay in bed), かぜでふせっている (to be laid up with a cold), へいが (be laid up, lie down), と�"につく (to be laid up, to be sick in bed, to go to bed). (various references)

Pig Latin

aidlay upay

Portuguese

depositado (deposited), armazenado, acamado (bedridden). (various references)

Romanian

fi bolnav de (be laid up with). (various references)

Russian 

слечь (be laid up, take to one's bed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

biti nagomilan (be laid up). (various references)

Spanish

encamado (bedridden, confined to one's bed, laid). (various references)

Swedish

ligga sjuk (be laid up). (various references)

Turkish

yatağa hapsolmak (be laid up with), yatağa düşmek (be laid up with, be taken ill, come down with, fall, fall ill, go down, take ill, take to one's bed). (various references)

sita, sitae, siti, sitis, sitos, situm, situs. (various references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dulia, pilau, plaid.

-2 letters: auld, dial, dual, laid, laud, lipa, padi, paid, pail, pial, pula, puli.

-3 letters: aid, ail, alp, dal, dap, dip, dui, dup, lad, lap, lid, lip, pad, pal, pia, piu, pud, pul.

-4 letters: ad, ai, al, id, la, li, pa, pi, up.

+1 letter: plaudit.

+2 letters: cuspidal, epidural, paludism, plaudits.

+3 letters: amplitude, aneuploid, appliqued, duplicate, palladium, paludisms, platitude, unplaited, uploading.

+4 letters: amplitudes, aneuploids, aneuploidy, applauding, audiophile, capsulized, disputable, disputably, duplicated, duplicates, duplicator, inculpated, multipaned, palladiums, pediculate, plasmodium, platitudes, pluralized, prudential, stipulated, ultrarapid.

+5 letters: aptitudinal, audiophiles, capitulated, diadelphous, displeasure, duplicating, duplication, duplicative, duplicators, manipulated, pediculates, popularised, popularized, prejudicial, quadrupling, reduplicate, supplicated, unamplified, unexplained, unpolarized.