lie up
verb
lay up; lain up; lying up; lies up
intransitive verb
1
: to go into or remain in a dock
2
: to stay in bed or at rest
Word History
First Known Use
1699, in the meaning defined at sense 1
lies up
verb
as in drops off
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- drops off
- turns in
- dozes
- nods
- sleeps
- snoozes
- naps
- rests
- catnaps
- slumbers
- bunks
- retires
- lies (down)
- perches
- roosts
- couches
- beds (down)
- dosses (down)
- reclines
- settles
- flops (down)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- arises
- rises
- rolls out
- gets up
- turns out
- uprises
- bestirs
- stirs
- awakens
- arouses
- wakes
- awakes
- sound spectrogram
- sound spectrograph
- sound system
- sound the alarm
- sound the death knell
- sound the retreat
- sound track
- sound truck
- sound wave
- sound waves
- sound wormy
- sound-and-light show
- sound-bite
- sound-condition
- sound-conditioned
- sound-conditioning
- sound-dead
- sound-effects man
- sound-intensity level
- sound-level meter
- sound-on-film
- sound-powered telephone
- sound-type
- sound/ring/toll the death knell
- sound/signal the retreat