Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lay one's hands on

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.15 in modern English

Syllables: lay one's hand-s on
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To lay hands on.

Example Sentences

"There are the engines that develop ill-health and begin to lose time, or the wagons that develop hot boxes and have to be removed, initiating delays that steadily pile up—or at worst, the weather lays its hand on the whole District."
"Perhaps the best news to come out of the nominations was the brightened box-office prospects for such films as Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild, a dazzling piece of magic realism pieced together from just $1.8m, some rusty bathtubs and whatever Louisiana bric-a-brac its youthful collective of film-makers could lay their hands on."

Inflected Forms

lays one's hands on (present, singular) laying one's hands on (participle, present) laid one's hands on (participle, past) laid one's hands on (past)

Questions

What does lay one's hands on mean?: To lay hands on.

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