lay sth down
— phrasal verb with lay uk/leɪ/us/leɪ/verb laid
(WINE)
specialized food & drink to store wine for drinking in the future
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Wines & winemaking
- -bodied
- amontillado
- Bordeaux
- breathe
- brut
- bubbly
- lay
- magnum
- Marsala
- martini
- nose
- oaky
- oenophile
- red wine
- rough
- vintner
- viticulture
- white wine
- wine
- wine cooler
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Keeping and storing things
(WEAPONS)
If you lay down your weapons, you stop fighting:
They laid down their weapons and surrendered.
Mediators have persuaded both sides to lay down their arms.
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Stopping fighting
- armistice
- beat/turn swords into ploughshares idiom
- ceasefire
- demilitarize
- disengage
- fall
- fall back
- lay
- pacify
- pullout
- surrender
- sword
- truce
(RULES)
to officially establish a rule, or to officially say how something should be done:
This is in line with the policy laid down by the management.
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Giving orders & commands
- all-points bulletin
- behest
- boss
- bossyboots
- chain of command
- charge
- crack the whip idiom
- defy
- demand
- dun
- enjoin
- expect
- forget
- harry
- lay down the law idiom
- mandate
- order sb around
- overbearing
- prescribed
- steamroller
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