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Adjective: laid  leyd
  1. Set down according to a plan
    "a carefully laid table with places set for four people"; "stones laid in a pattern";
    - set
Verb: lay (laid)  ley
  1. Cause to have a certain (possibly abstract) location
    "lay your things here";
    - put, set, place, pose, position
     
  2. Put in a horizontal position
    "lay the patient carefully onto the bed";
    - put down, repose
     
  3. Prepare or position for action or operation
    "lay a fire"; "lay the foundation for a new health care plan"
     
  4. Impose as a duty, burden, or punishment
    "lay a responsibility on someone"
     
  5. Produce and deposit (an egg or eggs)
    "This hen doesn't lay"
     
  6. [vulgar] Have sexual intercourse
    "they got laid in the back of the car"; "In the biblical sense, he lay with her";
    - sleep together, love, make love, sleep with, have sex, know [archaic], do it [informal], be intimate, have intercourse, lie with [archaic], bed [informal], get it on [informal]

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See also: arranged, lay away, ordered, put back [Brit, informal], put up, save, set out, set up, superimpose, unload

Type of: copulate, couple, devise, displace, get up, impose, levy, machinate, mate, move, organise [Brit], organize, pair, prepare

Encyclopedia: Laid, Sutherland

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