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laid  (ld)
v.
Past tense and past participle of lay1.
laid [leɪd]
vb
the past tense and past participle of lay1
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.laid - set down according to a plan:"a carefully laid table with places set for four people"; "stones laid in a pattern"
set
arranged, ordered - disposed or placed in a particular kind of order; "the carefully arranged chessmen"; "haphazardly arranged interlobular septa"; "comfortable chairs arranged around the fireplace"
Translations
laid [ˈleɪd]
pt
pp of lay
laid-back [ˌleɪdˈbæk] adj [person, attitude] → relax, décontracté(e)
laid up adj → alité(e), au lit
to be laid up with flu → être au lit avec la grippe
laid lay


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Now that he had no work to hold, he laid the knuckles of the right hand in the hollow of the left, and then the knuckles of the left hand in the hollow of the right, and then passed a hand across his bearded chin, and so on in regular changes, without a moment's intermission.
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But this time I found something at last; I found an old rusty wood-saw without any handle; it was laid in between a rafter and the clapboards of the roof.
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They sow and reap here in every season, the ground is always producing, and the fruits ripen throughout the year; so great, so charming is the variety, that the whole region seems a garden laid out and cultivated only to please.
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