laid up

Speech parts

1. laid up - Adjective

2. laid up - Verb

3. laid up - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

ill and usually confined

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

dicky down crummy weak bad ill poorly confined sick disabled funny afflicted ailing incapacitated diseased
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Antonyms

hardy hale fine fit healthy flourishing
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Examples

Whatever you may do for your brother, being hungry, and a stranger, and naked, not even the devil will be able to despoil, but it will be laid up in an inviolabe treasure. John Chrysostom

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. Rufus Choate

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be. Joseph Hall

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need. Pedro Calderón de la Barca

I had a terrible motorcycle accident, in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years. William Lucking

Penny and penny laid up will be many. Italian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

laid six feet under laid to eternal rest Laid to Rest laid-back laid-back music laid-back person