English

Adjective

laid up ‎(comparative more laid up, superlative most laid up)

1. Unable to move about normally due to illness or injury, especially when confined to bed.
   • 2000, Arthur Michael Saltzman, This Mad "instead": Governing Metaphors in Contemporary American Fiction, ISBN 9781570033261, p. 12,

     Flesh occasionally feels stalemated, more laid up than at home.

   • 2003, Walter Isaacson, "How They Chose These Words," Time, 7 Jul.,

     He was still laid up in bed with boils and gout when the committee first met.

2. Stored at a dock or other place of safety, as with a ship.

Verb

laid up

1. simple past tense and past participle of lay up

Anagrams

• dialup, dial-up