laying

The word “laying” has 2 syllables: lay-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈleɪ.ɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for laying?

In the thesaurus, “laying” has 196 synonyms and 42 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for laying along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for laying

accrediting
adventuring
affixing
anchoring
anointing
applying
arming
arranging
arraying
ascribing
assembling
assessing
assigning
associating
attaching
attributing
battening
bedaubing
berthing
besmearing
betting
bidding
blaming
blanketing
bleeding
bracing
burying
carpeting
carrying
chalking up
chancing
charging
clapping
clarifying
clearing
cloaking
coating
coercing
coffining
collecting
compelling
concealing
connecting
covering
crediting
curtaining
dabbing
daubing
deposing
depositing
disposing
docking
drafting
drawing up
educating
emplacing
endangering
ensconcing
enshrining
enshrouding
entombing
equipping
establishing
exacting
excising
extorting
filtering
fining
fitting
fixing
fleecing
flopping
forcing
forearming
fortifying
framing
furnishing
gambling
gathering
gearing up
girding
going
gouging
grooming
hazarding
hearsing
hiding
immuring
imperiling
imperilling
imposing
imputing
inclining
indoctrinating
inflicting
inhuming
instructing
interring
inurning
jeopardizing
layering
laying on
laying out
levying
lining up
linking
locating
locking
lodging
mantling
milking
mounting
moving
mulcting
niching
obscuring
offering
orienting
outfitting
overlaying
overlying
overspreading
parking
penalizing
placing
planking
planting
plastering
playing
plonking
plonking down
plopping
plumping
plunking
plunking down
positioning
predisposing
preparing
prepping
priming
providing
putting
putting away
putting down
queueing
queuing
ranking
readying
reapplying
rearranging
reburying
referring
reimposing
reinterring
relaying
reordering
resettling
schooling
screening
sedimenting
setting
setting down
setting up
settling
shading
shaking down
sheeting
shielding
shifting
shrouding
sieving
sifting
situating
skinning
slapping
slathering
smearing
speculating
spreading
squeezing
staking
steeling
sticking
straining
supplying
surfacing
taxing
tombing
training
tutoring
venturing
wagering
wedging
wreaking
wresting
wringing

Antonyms for laying

abating
agitating
banishing
baring
burning
condoning
cremating
diminishing
disclosing
discovering
disinterring
dislodging
displacing
displaying
disregarding
disturbing
excusing
exhibiting
exhuming
exposing
forgiving
ignoring
lessening
mixing
pardoning
peeling
raising
releasing
relocating
remitting
removing
replacing
revealing
showing
stirring
stripping
superseding
supplanting
taking
uncoffining
uncovering
unearthing

Meanings of laying

verb
1. To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
2. To cause to subside or abate.
3. To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
4. To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
5. To produce and deposit an egg.
6. To bet (that something is or is not the case).
7. To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
8. To have sex with.
9. To take a position; to come or go.
10. To state; to allege.
11. To point; to aim.
12. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
13. To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
14. To place (new type) properly in the cases.
15. To apply; to put.
16. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
17. To impute; to charge; to allege.
18. To present or offer.
19. To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

Example Sentences

The hen is laying eggs in the coop every morning.
He was laying bricks to build a garden wall.
She spent the afternoon laying the table for dinner.
They are laying the groundwork for a new project.
The workers are laying asphalt on the road.

On this page you'll find 238 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to laying, such as: abating, accrediting, adventuring, affixing, agitating, anchoring, anointing.

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