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lay in

verb

  1. tr, adverb to accumulate and store

    we must lay in food for the party

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Also, lay up . Stock or store for future use, as in We laid in supplies for the winter , or Are you sure you've laid up enough material? The first term dates from the late 1500s, the second from about 1400. Also see lay aside , def. 2; lay down , def. 4.
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In the years following India's independence, he sought inspiration not in Paris or New York, but in India's villages, mirroring Mahatma Gandhi's belief that the heart of the nation lay in its rural roots.

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She shook his leg as he lay in bed and shouted his name, but there was no response.

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But on Wednesday he was clutching a bunch of red flowers to lay in tribute to those murdered in Sweden's worst ever mass shooting.

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Several wards away, an elderly woman lay in her another hospital bed, hooked up to an oxygen tank.

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At his trial, Martin claimed to have been acting in self-defence while prosecutors argued he had anticipated the pair and lay in wait for them.

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