laid low

1. 1.

   put out of action (by illness)

   Synonymsstricken

   Similarill

Questions about laid low

What does laid low mean?

laid low means "put out of action (by illness)".

What is another word for laid low?

Close synonyms include stricken. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laid low a common word?

laid low is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.