/ Thesaurus / L Synonyms of lay up Find synonyms for: Noun1. lay-up, layup, basketball shotusage: a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)Verb1. lay up, disable, disenable, incapacitateusage: disable or confine, as with an illness; "She was laid up with pneumonia for six weeks"WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Related Content Daily Word Quiz: tenacious Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language