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laid low
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laid low
ailing, ausgespielt, bad, below par, couchant, critically ill, crouched, debased, depressed, done, done up, down, effete, emptied, exhausted, faint, faintish, far-gone, fatigued, feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible, flat, frazzled, ill, in danger, indisposed, jaded, knee-high, knocked flat, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, mortally ill, neap, not quite right, off-color, out of sorts, played out, pooped, prone, recumbent, rocky, run-down, runty, seedy, short, shotten, sick, sick unto death, sickish, spent, squat, squatty, stooped, stumpy, supine, taken ill, tired, under the weather, unelevated, unwell, used up, worn-outROGET THESAURUS
laid low
Weakness
N weakness, debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation, impotence, infirmity, effeminacy, feminality, fragility, flaccidity, inactivity, anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood, declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength, delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain, reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards, softling, weakling, infant, youth, weak, feeble, debile, impotent, relaxed, unnerved sapless, strengthless, powerless, weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic, nervous, soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly, frail, fragile, shattery, flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread, rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky, craichy, drooping, tottering, broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky, palsied, decrepit, languid, poor, infirm, faint, faintish, sickly, dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete, weather-beaten, decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear, unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted, aidless, defenseless, cantilevered (support), on its last legs, weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat, weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, colorless, non sum qualis eram.For further exploring for "laid low" in Webster Dictionary Online