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laid-up
adjective as in sick
Weak matches
- 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
Example Sentences
I tutted something about the symptoms of perimenopause and ignored it - but two days later I was laid up in bed with gastric flu.
“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.
One of the most memorable bikers depicted in the film is Zipco, a Latvian immigrant Lyon once interviewed at length while he was laid up in the hospital after a drunken riding accident.
He pulled his tee shot into the right rough and laid up on his second shot.
The image of her laid up in the hospital, looking ready for her close-up in full makeup with one black rose on the pillow beside her, looks like a staged photo for a fashion magazine.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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