Lay Up Synonyms and Antonyms

To save
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. conserve
  2. preserve
  3. hoard
*To disable
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. injure
  2. harm
  3. beat-up
Antonyms:
  1. heal
  2. help
A basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. layup

Words Related to Lay Up

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Lay Up Sentence Examples

  • We are to lay up our treasure in heaven.

  • In one case, while Uri was playing in a basketball game, he tripped while making a lay-up, broke his neck and died on the court.

  • Gather and lay up in the fruit-room with care the autumnal sorts of apples and pears.

  • This, however, is a consideration altogether alien to the Christian spirit, the aspiration of which is to lay up treasures not on earth but in heaven.

  • These are they who, enlarging day by day their sumptuous edifices, encircling them with lofty walls, lay up in them their incalculable treasures, imprudently transgressing the bounds of poverty and violating the very fundamental rules of their profession."

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