deep-laid

[ deep-leyd ]

/ ˈdipˈleɪd /

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adjective

carefully, cunningly, or secretly made: a deep-laid plot.

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Origin of deep-laid

First recorded in 1760–70

Words nearby deep-laid

deep-fry, deep fryer, deep frying, deep green, deep-kiss, deep-laid, deep learning, deep link, deep linking, deep-litter, deeply

How to use deep-laid in a sentence

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There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
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As he drove me back to the logging road, Frank told me about the area in his deep voice.
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He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.
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The inner ends of the burrows were enlarged with a depression in the floor, where the eggs were laid.
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At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.
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It succeeds best in a deep rich loam in a climate ranging from forty to fifty degrees of latitude.
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And then what could be more deep and poetic than Liszt's transcriptions of Schubert's and Wagner's songs?
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British Dictionary definitions for deep-laid

deep-laid

adjective

(of a plot or plan) carefully worked out and kept secret

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