LAY ON

Disuse

Verb: not use; do without, dispense with, let alone, not touch, forbear, abstain, spare, waive, neglect; keep back, reserve. lay up, lay by, lay on the shelf, keep on the shelf,lay up in ordinary; lay up in a napkin; shelve; set aside, put aside, lay aside; disuse, leave off, have done with; supersede; discard; (eject); dismiss, give warning.

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Redundancy

Choke, cloy, accloy, suffocate; pile up, lay on thick; impregnate with; lavish; (squander).

Relinquishment

Verb: relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf; (disuse); set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon.

Crosswords: LAY ON

Lay on, MacDuff. (Shannon's Deal; writing credit: David Greenwalt)

Hey, little girl, does your fish ever so often come out of water and lay on a rock? (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

That's the sort of crap people are always trying to lay on me! (Field of Dreams; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson)

Ladies and gentlemen, let me lay on you a so-so entertainer, not much of a humanitarian, and this cat was never nobody's friend. (All That Jazz; writing credit: Robert Alan Aurthur; Bob Fosse)

LAY ON YOUR PAWS I GOT YOUR BACK IF YOU FALL, HEY, HEY (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Loose leaf lay on the bed (One Season; performing artist: The Roches)

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

Freshly dug potatoes lay on the ground to be placed in barrels for shipment to the processing plant during the Maine harvest near Limestone. Credit: USDA.

"The bow of the Eber on the beach in front of the Consulate. The only visible part of the vessel. This part of the wreck was landed about 1/8 of a mile from where she struck the reef. 76 souls lost. ... Pencil sketch from Photograph." Artwork by Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, contained in his personal journal of the Apia Hurricane. It shows the bow of the sunken German gunboat Eber as it lay on the beach following the storm. Credit: NAVY.

"India Ink copy of Photograph of H.I.M. Adler, bow view on reef. Bridge over River Mulvai" Artwork by Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, contained in his personal journal of the Apia Hurricane. It shows German gunboat Adler as she lay on the western side of Apia Harbor after the storm, with the Mulivai River bridge in the left background. Credit: NAVY.

"Pencil sketch from Photograph of The wreck of the German, 'Adler', thrown on the reef on her beam ends" Artwork by Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, contained in his personal journal of the Apia Hurricane. It shows German gunboat Adler as she lay on the western side of Apia Harbor, following the storm. Credit: NAVY.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Alice noticed, with some surprise, that the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her head.

Half of the cuirassiers lay on the plateau.

When they were dead they lay on their sides.

The outhouse lay on its side, and the cotton grew close against it.

Whereupon the huge creature trod short, and looking round about under him for some time, at last espied me as I lay on the ground.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Human Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

Some survivors stated that they lay on the ground pretending to be dead until the gendarmes departed. (references)

Macedonia

Interior Ministry officials claimed that the men had resisted arrest; however, according to NGO reports, there was no sign of an exchange of fire, and there was evidence that the victims were shot from above as they lay on the floor. (references)

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

Expressions using "LAY ON": lay on the line ♦ lay on thick ♦ To lay on ♦ To lay on load ♦ To lay on the shelf ♦ To lay on the table. Additional references.

Albanian

planifikoj (aim, count on, dope, forecast, plan, program, programme, project, schedule, scheme), pajtoj në punë (hire), furnizoj (deliver, equip, equip with, feed, fit out, furnish, outfit, provide with, purvey, supply, victual), caktoj (allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate, arrange, assign, award, call, constitute, designate, detail, fix, instal, install, instate, intend, make, mete, name, nominate, order, put, qualify, set, tell off, zone). (various references)

Czech

zasadit (bed, deliver, enroot, fit in, implant, inflict, set). (various references)

Danish

pålægge (feed, stroke in). (various references)

Dutch

inleggen (deposit, insert, pickle, preserve, put away, put in, stow). (various references)

Esperanto

kuŝi supre sur (be on top of, lay on top of). (various references)

Finnish

asentaa taloon vesijohdot (lay on water). (various references)

French

marger. (various references)

German

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 in, 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 

παρασελιδόνω (feed, stroke in), αφήνω περιθώρια (feed, stroke in). (various references)

Hungarian

vérebet nyomon elindít (to lay on a bloodhound), színeket egymás után nyomtat (to lay on colours), festéket felhord (to lay on colours). (various references)

Italian

marginare (border, margin). (various references)

Pig Latin

aylay onay

Portuguese

marginar (margin, rim, skirt), margear (hem), infligir (inflict, put on), impor (bind, command, enjoin, force, impose, impress, inflict, penance, put on, sandbag, strike). (various references)

Romanian

pune (add, adhibit, annex, append, apply, attach, bet on, cause, deposit, do, Don, draw, dress, enclose, hang, impose, lay, lay down, lay up, Mount, place, pose, position, propose, put, put down, put in, put on, put up, repose, set, sow, stick), impune (assign, carry, compel, enforce, enjoin, entail, force, get, impose, lay, protrude, rate, tax), întinde (arrange, couch, dilate, draw, expand, extend, fling out, hang, lengthen, outspread, outstretch, pull, pull up, reach, set, sprawl, spread, stretch, strew, tauten, tighten, widen), împãrţi (admeasure, allot, apportion, assign, branch, cast, comminute, deal, distribute, divide, dole, go snacks, impart, measure out, mete, mete out, parcel out, partake of, partition, pass out, portion, retail, section, share, slice, split). (various references)

Russian 

возлагать (entrust, placatory). (various references)

Scottish

sacaich (lay on as a burden). (various references)

Spanish

recargar (ornate, overload, recharge, reload), pintar (color, colour, decorate, depict, oil, paint, picture, portray, stain), marginar (exclude, freeze out, reject), instalar (establish, instal, install, lay, plant, put in, set up, take up), imponer (deposit, enforce, enjoin, entail, exact, give, hand down, impose, impose oneself, inflict, keep, lay, press, set, tax), empezar a luchar, descargar a (disburden, unburden, vent), darse golpes, conectar (connect, plug in, put in, tap, turn on), comenzar a luchar, arremeter (accrue, attack, beat up on, lash out, lunge, walk in). (various references)

Swedish

lägga på (apply, impose, lay, levy, put on), lägga in (case, cure, encase, incase, inject, inlay, instal, install, pickle, put in), ordna (adjust, arrange, arrange for, array, assort, compose, dispose, do, dress, put in order, rank, regulate, see, settle, sort), arrangera (arrange, arrange for, do, fix up, institute, organize, stage). (various references)

Turkish

yüklenmek (attach, be stuck with, embark, lie heavy on smb., load, load up, shoulder, sit upon, stick it on, take upon oneself, undertake), yüklemek (ascribe, burden, charge, embark, encumber, fasten, fasten on, father, foist, freight, hand over, heap, impose, impute, inflict, Lade, lay, lay smth. at one's door, load, offload, overlay, pin, pitch, plant, put, put down, saddle, shift, stack, store, weight), tesisat döşemek, 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 in, maintain, make, obtain, procure, provide, provide with, provision, purvey, secure, suck, supply, yield), sürmek (apply, banish, bedaub, cast out, coat, continue, daub, distribute, drive, drive out, endure, exile, expatriate, expel, hang over, herd, last, lead, ostracize, outlaw, persist, pitchfork, relegate, roll, rub, run, slip in, smear, splash, spread, steer, stock, stream, stuff, throw out, till, tool along, transport, wipe on), kullanmak (apply, call forth, dispose, dispose of, draw on, drive, employ, engage, exert, exploit, handle, harness, head, make use of, operate, pilot, ply, put account, ride, roll, run, take advantage of, turn to account, use, utilize, wield), koymak (closure, dot smb. one, lay, lay down, Park, place, plant, position, put, put down, rest, set, set down, stick, sting), halletmek (adjust, arrange, clear up, compound, dispatch, dispose of, dissolve, figure out, get things done, hurdle, lick, manage, overcome, polish off, resolve, solve, sort, sort out, Square, surmount, unriddle, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unzip, work out), ayarlamak (adjust, arrange, assay, budget, calibrate, collimate, draw up, fix up, gear, justify, measure, proportion, regularize, regulate, reset, scale, set, Square, standardize, syntonize, time, tone, trim, tune). (various references)

Ukrainian

нападати (assault, attack, blast, castigate, fall upon, fly at, insult, pile on, pounce, set upon, strike), прокладати (beat, carve, lay, open). (various references)

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

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

Misspellings

"LAY ON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: layon. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: loan, only.

-2 letters: any, lay, nay, yon.

-3 letters: al, an, ay, la, lo, na, no, on, oy, ya, yo.

+2 letters: acyloin, aglycon, alimony, allonym, almonry, analogy, anolyte, anomaly, balcony, baloney, daylong, halcyon, nodally, nonplay, notably, panoply, polynya, synodal, tonally, womanly, zonally.

+3 letters: acyloins, aglycone, aglycons, allonyms, alloying, amylogen, ankylose, anodally, anolytes, antilogy, atonally, baloneys, blazonry, carbonyl, clonally, condylar, cyclonal, downplay, falconry, halcyons, hyalogen, lanosity, laywoman, laywomen, longways, manyfold, matronly, narrowly, nodality, nonleafy, nonplays, nonroyal, normalcy, normally, nounally, ornately, palimony, patronly, playdown, polynyas, polypnea, polyzoan, ponytail, randomly, sovranly, syncopal, synovial, tonality, wantonly, yearlong, yeomanly.