laid up

1. Also, sick in bed . Ill and confined to bed, as in I was laid up for a week with the flu , or Sally can't come outside; she's sick in bed . [Mid-1500s]

2. Put in a safe place, as in The ship was laid up in dock with engine trouble , or The hikers were laid up in a cave during the storm . [Mid-1600s] Also see under lay in ; lay someone low .

Example Sentences

Insurance companies don’t pay primary-care doctors to see patients in hospital; doctors might not know if a patient is laid up with a broken hip or beginning cancer treatment.

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"I don't know what to say, man, I've been laid up for like six years...thank you from the bottom of my heart," he told the crowd.

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“You can’t be laid up like this too much longer,” she insists, and it’s a credit to Deadwyler that even in this absurdist moment, we see the fear under her armor.

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I tutted something about the symptoms of perimenopause and ignored it - but two days later I was laid up in bed with gastric flu.

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“I’ll likely get my surgery in late September, be laid up for a month, and — God willing — be cancer-free and back at it by the end of October,” he said.

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