lie up

verb

1. to go into or stay in one's room or bed, as through illness
2. to be out of commission or use

   my car has been lying up for months

Example Sentences

While the draining of reservoirs let loose heavy loads of sediment, there are also areas where piles of sand, gravel and clay lie up to 15 feet deep beside tributary streams.

From Los Angeles Times

There were resignations from the Cabinet and angry denunciations by dozens of Republicans who had happily gone along with Trump's Big Lie up to that point.

From Salon

Having made this lie up, he then berated Alabama-based OB-GYN Dr. Yashica Robinson for the existence of a procedure that, quite literally, only happens in his bizarre fantasies.

From Salon

He has offered to have his vasectomy reversed or to adopt a child to make his lie up to me.

From Slate

He has offered to have his vasectomy reversed or to adopt a child to make his lie up to me.

From Slate