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present tense third-person singular of lay by
Synonyms & Antonyms of lays by
1
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
- a politician who had laid by his principles years ago
Synonyms for lays by
- cashiers,
- casts (off),
- chucks,
- deep-sixes,
- discards,
- ditches,
- dumps,
- eighty-sixes
- (or 86es),
- exorcises
- (also exorcizes),
- flings (off or away),
- jettisons,
- junks,
- loses,
- pitches,
- rejects,
- scraps,
- sheds,
- shucks (off),
- sloughs (off)
- also sluffs (off),
- throws away,
- throws out,
- tosses,
- unloads
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2
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place
- ever since the last hurricane caught them unprepared, they have laid by emergency supplies
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