laid up

1. 1.

   ill and usually confined

   “laid up with a bad cold”

   Similarill

Questions about laid up

What does laid up mean?

laid up means "ill and usually confined".

Is laid up a common word?

laid up 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.