uplay
English
Etymology
From up- + lay.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʌpˈleɪ/
- Rhymes: -eɪ
Verb
uplay (third-person singular simple present uplays, present participle uplaying, simple past and past participle uplaid)
- (transitive, rare) To lay up; hoard.
- 1608, John Donne, Upon the Annunciation and Passion Falling upon One Day:
- Or as though the least of His pains, deeds, or words,
Would busy a life, she all this day affords;
This treasure then, in gross, my soul uplay,
And in my life retail it every day.
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Anagrams
- Pauly, lay up, lay-up, layup