lay low
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Example Sentences
- "He was laid low by a vicious blow to the head."
- "The dragon's ire, more fierce than fire, laid low their towers and houses frail."
- "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."
- "We lay low until the shell went over and then would straighten up again."
- "Me and Dave layed low^([sic]) until then, and I guess the whole dummed town was at Philemon's that night."
- "Under you drop, and you work yourself along until you come to the partition between the two rooms; there you'll find a secret chamber; it isn't big enough for more than one person at a time, but there's a cot in it and you can lay low."