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| Main Entry: |
lay up
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurt, incapacitate |
| Synonyms: | beat up, confine, disable, harm, hospitalize, injure |
| Antonyms: | heal, help |
| Main Entry: | laid-up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sick |
| Synonyms: | ailing, bedridden, broken down, confined, debilitated, declining, defective, delicate, diseased, disordered, down, feeble, feverish, frail, funny*, green*, hospitalized, ill, impaired, imperfect, in a bad way, in poor health, incurable, indisposed, infected, infirm, invalid, lousy, mean, nauseated, not so hot, peaked, poorly, qualmish, queasy, rickety, rocky, rotten, run down, sick as a dog, suffering, tottering, under medication, under the weather, unhealthy, unwell, weak, wobbly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bedridden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sick in bed |
| Synonyms: | ailing, disabled, flat on one's back, ill, incapacitated, infirm, invalid, laid up, prostrate |
| Main Entry: | confined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | limited, enclosed |
| Synonyms: | bedfast, bedridden, bottled up, bound, chilled, circumscribed, compassed, cooped up, cramp, cramped, detained, flattened out, grounded, hampered, held, hog-tied, iced, immured, imprisoned, in chains, in jail, incarcerated, incommodious, indisposed, invalided, jailed, laid up, locked up, on ice, pent, restrained, restricted, sealed up, shut in, sick |
| Antonyms: | free, liberated, unlimited |
| Main Entry: | crippled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disabled |
| Synonyms: | bedridden, broken, damaged, defective, deformed, enfeebled, game, gimp, halt, hamstrung, handicapped, harmed, hog-tied, housebound, impaired, incapacitated, laid up, lame, maimed, mangled, marred, mutilated, out of commission, paralyzed, sidelined |
| Antonyms: | healthy, walking |
| Main Entry: | indisposed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not well |
| Synonyms: | ailing, below par, confined, down, down with, feeling rotten, got a bug, ill, infirm, laid up, on sick list, out of action, poorly, sick, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
| Antonyms: | healthy, well |
| Main Entry: | amass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather, accumulate |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, assemble, clean up, collect, compile, corral*, garner, heap*, hoard, lay up, make a killing, make a pile, pile, round up, scare up, stockpile, store |
| Antonyms: | disburse, disperse, dissipate, divide, dole, scatter, spend |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disabled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incapacitated |
| Synonyms: | broken-down, confined, decrepit, disarmed, hamstrung, handicapped, helpless, hurt, incapable, infirm, laid-up, lame, maimed, out-of-action, out-of-commission, paralyzed, powerless, run-down, sidelined, stalled, weakened, worn-out, wounded, wrecked |
| Antonyms: | able, healthy |
| Main Entry: | garner |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | collect, accumulate |
| Synonyms: | amass, assemble, cull, cumulate, deposit, extract, gather, glean, harvest, hive, hoard, lay in, lay up, pick up, put by, reap, reserve, roll up, save, stockpile, store, stow away, treasure |
| Notes: | garner means to amass or acquire or reap; gather means to assemble or get together |
| Antonyms: | disperse, dissipate, divide, separate, spread |
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