Injured
Laid up
Laid up adjective - Ill and usually confined.
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Synonyms for Laid up
Injured and laid up are semantically related in bedridden topic. Sometimes you can use "Injured" instead an adjective phrase "Laid up", if it concerns topics such as incapacitated.
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While injured and laid up in a hospital ship, he wrote a guide to the naval strengths of the Allies and Japanese.
Source: Useful Notes / James Callaghan -
If you have a squad of Colonels that all get injured by a Sectopod's cluster bombs, they're going to be laid up in the infirmary for days, maybe weeks.
Source: Video Game / XCOM: Enemy Unknown
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