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lays down one's life

lays down one's life is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lay down one's life.

Meaning of lay down one's life

Verb

lay down one's life (third-person singular simple present lays down one's life, present participle laying down one's life, simple past and past participle laid down one's life)

  1. (literary) To give one's life, to die.
    • Gold was there, and get at it they would, and at any cost. Many of our fellow-passengers suffered a rude awakening, and more than one man laid down his life in the quest for gold that had taken so fierce a hold upon him.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 142

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Lays down one's life is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lay down one's life.

Words near lays down one's life in the dictionary

  1. lays claim
  2. lays down
  3. lays down arms
  4. lays down on
  5. lays down one's arms
  6. lays down one's life
  7. lays down one's weapons
  8. lays down the law
  9. lays down the marker
  10. lays eggs
  11. lays eyes on

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