Lay Synonyms and Antonyms

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A narrative poem of popular origin
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ballad
  2. order
  3. arrangement
  4. situation
To place
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. place
  2. put
  3. set
  4. deposit
  5. put down
  6. stick
  7. pose
  8. repose
  9. position
Antonyms:
  1. take
  2. pick up
  3. lift
To place (a corpse) in or as if in a grave
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. bury
  2. entomb
  3. inhume
  4. inter
To regard as belonging to or resulting from another
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. accredit
  2. ascribe
  3. assign
  4. attribute
  5. charge
  6. credit
  7. impute
  8. refer
To put in order
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. arrange
  2. set
  3. organize
  4. systematize
  5. spread
To knock down
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. trounce
  2. Also used with down: bet
  3. gamble
  4. post
  5. defeat
  6. put
  7. risk
  8. stake
  9. venture
  10. club
  11. wager
  12. go
To place (a story, for example) in a designated setting
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. set
  2. endured
  3. prevailed
  4. extended
To bring forth
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. generate
  2. adduce
  3. cite
  4. deposit
  5. present
  6. yield
  7. allege
To bet
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. bet
  2. game
  3. gamble
  4. wager
  5. play
  6. lay-odds
To smooth out
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. steam
  2. aim
  3. cast
  4. direct
  5. head
  6. lay flat
  7. level
  8. point
  9. set
  10. train
  11. iron-out
  12. turn
  13. zero in
Antonyms:
  1. rough
Not religious in subject matter, form, or use
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. secular
  2. profane
  3. laic
  4. temporal
  5. worldly
Have a place in relation to something else
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. rested
  2. lazed
  3. stretched
  4. lolled
  5. sprawled
  6. reposed
Antonyms:
  1. sat
  2. stood
  3. straightened
  4. arose
To assume a prostrate position
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. retired
  2. stretched
  3. couched
  4. reposed
  5. reclined
Antonyms:
  1. arose
  2. rose
To make untrue declarations
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. prevaricated
  2. forswore
  3. fibbed
  4. falsified
Amateur
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. ordained
  2. professional

Words Related to Lay

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Lay Sentence Examples

  • What lay at the end of that path?

  • She lay down, hugging it.

  • He lay with his head propped high on the pillows.

  • Later as she lay awake beside him, listening to the sound of his breathing, it occurred to her that they had fallen into the pattern of making up by making love.

  • While you lay there choking.

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