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lay byverb to get rid of as useless or unwanteda politician who had laid by his principles years ago cashier, cast (off), chuck, deep-six, discard, ditch, dump, eighty-six(or 86), exorcise(also exorcize), fling (off or away), jettison, junk, lose, pitch, reject, scrap, shed, shuck (off), slough (off)also sluff (off), throw away, throw out, toss, unload abandon, abdicate, desert, forsakedismiss, kick outabolish, annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, remove, root (out), stamp (out), wipe out dispose of, set aside adopt, embrace, take onemploy, use, utilizehold, hold back, keep, retain to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret placeever since the last hurricane caught them unprepared, they have laid by emergency supplies cache, hoard, lay away, lay in, lay up, put by, salt away, squirrel (away), stash, stockpile, store, stow, treasure accumulate, acquire, amass, assemble, collect, concentrate, garner, gather, pick up, round up, scrape (together)heap, pile, stackconserve, husband, preservebank, coffer, deposit, hold, keep, reserve, retain, save, set by, stock, withholdbury, conceal, ensconce, secrete set aside cast, discard, ditch, dump, fling (off or away), jettison, throw away, throw out, unloadconsume, squander, use up, wastehand out, hand over, relinquish, surrenderblow, dissipate, fritter (away), lavish, misspend, run through, spenddeplete, exhaust, expend, impoverishdispel, disperse, dissipate, scatter in the 15th century |