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Discover Ludwig"laid up" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone is unable to do something or is prevented from doing something. For example: "The storm had us all laid up for days, unable to leave the house."
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laid up
verb
Past of lay up
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She laid up and scored par.
Nicklaus laid up with a 2-iron.
Cassandro was laid up for months.
Next day he was laid up with a heavy cold.
He had to be laid up someplace close.
I was laid up for four or five months".
DiMarco also laid up and birdied by two-putting.
Woods, easily capable of reaching the green, laid up.
Last year, Mr. Gilmartin was laid up with pneumonia.
By Friday morning he was laid up in bed with a combination of flu and diarrhoea.
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Further, we suggested that PKCβ2 was involved in this process and its activation laid up-stream of NF-κB activation.
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