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Lay low
verb, slang
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Verb
- 1 To topple or overcome; to cause to fall; (of a person) to knock out. transitive
"He was laid low by a vicious blow to the head."
- 2 To lie low, to be inconspicuous, especially when the potential object of search. informal, proscribed, sometimes
"We lay low until the shell went over and then would straighten up again."
- 3 simple past of lie low form-of, past
- 4 To put in an abject condition. transitive
"My lover had remained in New York with her family because she had picked up the plague, or something just as bad, that had laid her quite low."
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