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.

  • 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.

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

  • The route taken lay up the north-west side of Lake Michigan, up Green Bay and Fox river, across Lake Winnebago, over the portage to the Wisconsin river, and down the latter into the Mississippi, which was descended to within 700 m.

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