LAID UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does laid up mean? 

• LAID UP (adjective)
  The adjective LAID UP has 1 sense:

1. ill and usually confined

  Familiarity information: LAID UP used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAID UP (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ill and usually confined

Context example:

laid up with a bad cold

Similar:

ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Weston, you would be quite laid up; do not let them talk of such a wild thing.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Nothing's truer than them,” repeated Mr. Barkis; “a man as poor as I am, finds that out in his mind when he's laid up. I'm a very poor man, sir!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He has been laid up with a hack, and once he slipped his knee-cap, but that was nothing.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It seems to me, that if you tried hard, you would in time find it possible to become what you yourself would approve; and that if from this day you began with resolution to correct your thoughts and actions, you would in a few years have laid up a new and stainless store of recollections, to which you might revert with pleasure.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“When Em'ly got strong again,” said Mr. Peggotty, after another short interval of silence, “she cast about to leave that good young creetur, and get to her own country. The husband was come home, then; and the two together put her aboard a small trader bound to Leghorn, and from that to France. She had a little money, but it was less than little as they would take for all they done. I'm a'most glad on it, though they was so poor! What they done, is laid up wheer neither moth or rust doth corrupt, and wheer thieves do not break through nor steal. Mas'r Davy, it'll outlast all the treasure in the wureld.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)