lay sb out
— phrasal verb with lay uk/leɪ/us/leɪ/verb laid
(DEAD BODY)
to prepare a dead person's body to be buried
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Funerals
- closed-casket
- cortege
- funeral director
- funeral parlour
- funerary
- funereal
- green burial
- hearse
- lay
- mortician
- mourner
- natural burial
- open-casket
- pall
- pay your respects idiom
- respect
- the last post
- undertaker
- wake
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(HIT)
informal to hit someone so hard that they fall down and become unconscious:
Harrison was laid out for several minutes by a blow to the head.
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- conk
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
- whack
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