Down and Laid up

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Down adjective - Brought or having come to an end.

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Laid up and down are semantically related in health topic. In some cases you can use "Laid up" instead an adjective "Down".

Nearby Word: downed

Laid up adjective - Ill and usually confined.

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Down and laid up are semantically related in health topic. You can use "Down" instead an adjective phrase "Laid up".

In "The Witch's Curse", Robert Urich's character is laid up in a wheelchair because his stairs were being refinished and he forgot about it: falling down the stairs and fracturing his leg in multiple places.

Source: Series / Murder, She Wrote
Once when laid up in bed with slash wounds on his throat and left ear, he told a clerk of the Roman courts that he had wounded himself with his own sword while falling down the stairs, rather than name his attacker(s) and face further retribution.

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