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deep-laid

deep-laid adjective: secret and carefully planned.

Adjective

deep-laid (comparative more deep-laid, superlative most deep-laid)

  1. (usually) secret and carefully planned.
    • Captain Cuttle, in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming, with which (as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature, […]1848, Charles Dickens, chapter XVII, in Dombey and Son
    • 'Then why did you make every preparation—turn the Republics into armed camps—prepare deep-laid plans for the invasion of our Colonies?'1900, Winston Churchill, chapter X, in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria

deep-laid meaning in Tamil

deep-laid in Tamil

ஆழந்து அடிகோலப்பட்ட, உறுதிவாய்ந்த அடிப்படையுடைய

Synonyms of deep-laid

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Forms of deep-laid

comparativemore deep-laid
superlativemost deep-laid

Questions about deep-laid

What does deep-laid mean?
Deep-laid means secret and carefully planned.
What is deep-laid in Tamil?
Deep-laid in Tamil is ஆழந்து அடிகோலப்பட்ட, உறுதிவாய்ந்த அடிப்படையுடைய. See Deep-laid meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is deep-laid?
Deep-laid is an adjective.

Words near deep-laid in the dictionary

  1. deep-froze
  2. deep-frozen
  3. deep-fry
  4. deep-frying
  5. deep-grounded
  6. deep-laid
  7. deep-level
  8. deep-lying
  9. deep-lying midfielders
  10. deep-mouthed
  11. deep-pocketed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deep-laid (page history and authors); deep-laid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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