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laying downverbpresent participle of lay down to put into effect through legislative or authoritative actionthe city council promises to lay down new ordinances that will force dog walkers to clean up after their animals constituting, enacting, legislating, making, ordaining, passing reenacting, repassingbringing about, effectingallowing, authorizing, permitting, sanctioningdecreeing, dictating, proclaimingadministering, executingapproving, confirming, ratifying repealing, rescinding, revoking abolishing, abrogating, annulling, canceling(or cancelling), invalidating, killing, nullifyingoverturning, reversing, voiding to state clearly and stronglyat the risk of their popularity, the parents laid down the rules for the party and wouldn't accept any arguments affirming, asserting, averring, avouching, avowing, declaring, guaranteeing, professing advancing, advertising, boosting, plugging, promoting, publicizingannouncing, blazing, calling, proclaiming, pronouncing, sayingaccenting, accentuating, emphasizing, stressing, underlining, underscoringadvocating, championing, defending, espousing, supporting, upholdingassuring, convincing, persuadingexplaining, justifying, rationalizingreaffirming, reasserting minimizing, understatingdisregarding, ignoring, neglecting, overlooking to give the rules about (something) clearly and exactlythe supervisor laid down the procedure for a complaint of sexual harassment defining, prescribing, specifying decreeing, dictating, ordainingassigning, directing, fixing, setting, settlingarranging, orderingchoosing, selectingadjuring, bidding, charging, commanding, enjoining, instructing, tellingconducting, controlling, governing, leading, managingcoercing, compelling, constraining, forcingobligating, obliging, requiring to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duresscommanded the surrounded troops to lay down their weapons ceding, coughing up, delivering, giving up, handing over, relinquishing, rendering, surrendering, turning in, turning over, yielding committing, consigning, entrusting(also intrusting), transferringforfeiting, releasing, waivingabnegating, renouncing, resigningabandoning, deserting, discarding, forsaking, parting (with), shedding keeping, retaining, withholding |