Lay In

Definition: Lay In

Lay In

Verb

1. Keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Lay In

Destruction

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.

Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.

Food

Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.

Interment

Verb: inter, bury; lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb; inhume; lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify; toll the knell; put to bed with a shovel; inurn.

Preparation

Guard against, make sure against; forearm, make sure, prepare for the evil day, have a rod in pickle, provide against a rainy day, feather one's nest; lay in provisions; make investments; keep on foot.

Provision

Verb: provide; make provision, make due provision for; lay in, lay in a stock, lay in a store.

Store

Deposit; stow, stack, load; harvest; heap, collect; lay in store;

Adjective:; keep, file; lay in; (provide); preserve.

Crosswords: Lay In

HYDROLAB's success lay in the simple design and expert support personnel. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

A stack of 122mm rockets lay in the Pit, March 11 and 12, 1991, near Khamisiyah, Iraq after being demolished. (Photo courtesy of the 307th Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army).

Navy surgeons operate on two Korean soldiers, as the transport lay in Hungnam harbor on 16 December 1950, during the evacuation of that North Korean port. Photographed by R.A. Schreiber. Credit: NAVY.

A man lay in the drifts, his rifle beside him. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Whence it is plain, that at least a great part of the land lay in common; that the inhabitants valued it not, nor claimed property in any more than they made use of. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Arthur lay in startled stillness on the acceleration couch.

Truly, as I sought to convince him, the shame lay in the commission of the sin, and not in the showing of it forth.

More than one traveller lay in the shadow of this wretch, with extended arms and with his face in a pool of blood.

They lay in the water and looked across at the sharp peaks called Needles, and at the white rock mountains of Arizona.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Honduras

The catalyst was nationalistic feelings aroused by a series of soccer matches between the two countries, but the roots of the conflict lay in local disputes over land ownership and usage. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "lay in": lay in a stock ♦ lay in a store ♦ lay in provisions ♦ lay in ruins ♦ lay in stocks ♦ lay in store ♦ lay in the coal ♦ To lay in ♦ To lay in balance ♦ To lay in for ♦ To lay in lavender. Additional references.

Albanian

rezervoj (bespeak, book, earmark, engage, hive, reserve). (various references)

Czech

zásobit (provide, purvey, stock, store, store up). (various references)

Finnish

varastoida (stock, store, store up). (various references)

German

einlagern (put down, store, warehouse), anlegen (apply, attach, berth, buckle on, clap on, couch, create, dock, Don, draw up, fund, invest, land, landing, landscape, lay, lay back, lay beside, lay on, lay out, lay up, lean, locate, moor, mooring, position, put on, put onto, set, set out, site, start, structure, support, sustain, to apply, to apply (to)). (various references)

Greek 

κάνω απόθεμα. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשמור (keep, keep guard, mind, observe, preserve, protect). (various references)

Hungarian

növényt takar (to lay in a plant by the heels), növényt elföldel (to lay in a plant by the heels). (various references)

Italian

fare una scorta di. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�える (to lay in stock, to store). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たくわえる (to lay in stock, to store), しいれる (to lay in stock, to procure, to replenish stock), か�"におさめる (to lay in a coffin). (various references)

Pig Latin

aylay inay

Portuguese

armazenar (bin, garner, lay up, stock, store). (various references)

Romanian

strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), se aproviziona, burduşi (pommel, sandbag, shrink, stuff, tan, warp), bate mãr (Lam, paste, smite hip and thigh), aduna (abstract, accumulate, add, add up, amass, assemble, call, cast up, collect, concentrate, congregate, crowd, deduce, engross, foot-up an account, forage, garner, gather, glean, harvest, heap, huddle up, ingather, jam, lump, muster, pack, pick up, pile, pile up, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, scoop up, sum, take up, tot, total, troop). (various references)

Russian 

припасать (lay in store, store, store up). (various references)

Spanish

proveerse (give repeat order, reorder, repeat, restock), comprar (acquire, buy, buy up, buying, get, go in for, invest in, pick up, purchase, take over, to buy), acumular (accumulate, amass, cache, garner, gather, hoard, hoard up, lay up, pile up, stock, stockpile). (various references)

Swedish

lägga upp (clamp, dish up, hem, lay up, plank down). (various references)

Turkish

stoklamak (buy up, forestall, garner, hoard, lay up, pile, stock, stock up, stockpile), sağlamak (accommodate, accommodate smb. with, arm, assure, carry, cater, cater for, come in, derive, enlist, ensure, extract, fend for, find, fix, fix up, furnish, get out of, implement, keep, lay on, maintain, make, obtain, procure, provide, provide with, provision, purvey, secure, suck, supply, yield), depolamak (garner, lay up, stock, store, store up, warehouse), dayak atmak (bash up, baste, beat, chastise, clobber, cudgel, curry, drub, flog, give a thrashing, give smb. the works, give the stick, hide, Lam, larrup, lather, lay into, lick, pelt, punish, spifflicate, spiflicate, thrash, trounce, whop), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop), çok kazanmak (make a killing). (various references)

Ukrainian

відкладати про запас. (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

Direct Anagrams: inlay.

-1 letter: anil, ayin, inly, lain, liny, nail.

-2 letters: ail, ain, ani, any, lay, lin, nay, nil, yin.

-3 letters: ai, al, an, ay, in, la, li, na, ya.

+1 letter: gainly, hyalin, inlays, laying, litany, mainly, vainly, zanily.

+2 letters: acyloin, alienly, alimony, allying, anality, angrily, anility, anticly, bairnly, cannily, claying, cynical, dandily, elysian, faintly, fancily, finally, flaying, handily, hyaline, hyalins, inanely, inaptly, inlayer, ladykin, laniary, lankily, lazying, mangily, manlily, naively, nastily, nattily, nylghai, plainly, playing, pliancy, ptyalin, rainily, riantly, saintly, slaying, snakily, tawnily, yawling, yealing.