How to pronounce “lay down”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To give up, surrender, or yield (e.g. a weapon), usually by placing it on the ground.
• To place on the ground, e.g. a railway on a trackbed.
• (transitive) To intentionally take a fall while riding a motorcycle, in order to prevent a more serious collision.
• (transitive) To specify, institute, enact, assert firmly, state authoritatively, establish or formulate (rules or policies).
• To stock, store (e.g. wine) for the future. See also lay by.
• (African-American Vernacular, dated, transitive) To kill (someone).
• (euphemistic, transitive) To euthanize an animal.
• To sacrifice, especially in the phrase "to lay down one's life."
• (intransitive, proscribed) To lie down.
• (nautical, dated) To draw the lines of a ship's hull at full size, before starting a build.
• (obsolete, printing) To place a sheet in a printing press for printing.

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