lay out

• POS: Noun Phrase, Verb (transitive)

THESAURUS

lay out

KO, align, anesthetize, arrange, array, bedaze, benumb, besot, blast, block out, blot out, blow down, blow over, blueprint, blunt, bowl down, bowl over, bring down, budget, bulldog, bump off, carve, cast, cast down, chart, chisel, chloroform, chop down, coldcock, cool off, cost, cost out, create, croak, cut, cut down, dash down, deaden, deck, deploy, desensitize, diagram, disburse, dispose, do in, dope, down, drop, drug, dull, efform, embalm, equalize, erase, etherize, even, expend, fashion, fell, fetch down, figure, fix, flatten, floor, flush, forge, fork out, form, formalize, found, frame, freeze, get, give the business, go through, grade, graph, ground, gun down, harmonize, hew, hew down, hierarchize, hit, ice, incur costs, invest, kayo, knead, knock down, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay, lay down, lay flat, lay level, lay low, lay off, level, lick into shape, lie in state, line up, map, map out, mark off, mark out, marshal, measure off, measure out, methodize, mint, model, mold, mow down, mummify, narcotize, normalize, numb, obtund, off, open the purse, order, organize, outlay, pace off, pacify, palsy, paralyze, pay, pay out, plan, plot, plot out, polish off, precipitate, prostrate, pull down, put out, put to sleep, quiet, rank, rase, raze, regularize, regulate, roll, roll flat, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, routinize, rub out, rule off, run through, schedule, sculpt, sculpture, send headlong, set, set off, set out, set up, settle, shape, shell out, sink money in, sketch, sketch out, smooth, smooth out, smoothen, spend, splurge, spread-eagle, squander, stamp, standardize, steamroll, steamroller, step off, structure, stun, stupefy, supinate, systematize, tailor, take care of, take down, thermoform, throw, throw down, throw money around, topple, tranquilize, trip, tumble, waste, whack down, wipe out, work, zap

ROGET THESAURUS

lay out

Plan

VB plan, scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch, devise, invent, set one's wits to work, spring a project, fall upon, hit upon, strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out, lay down a plan, shape out a course, mark out a course, predetermine, concert, preconcert, preestablish, prepare, hatch, hatch a plot concoct, take steps, take measures, cast, recast, systematize, organize, arrange, digest, mature, plot, counter-plot, counter-mine, dig a mine, lay a train, intrigue.

Expenditure

VB expend, spend, run through, get through, pay, disburse, ante, ante up, pony up, open the purse strings, loose the purse strings, untie the purse strings, lay out, shell out, fork out, fork over, bleed, make up a sum, invest, sink money, run up debts, run up bills (debt), fee, pay one's way, subscribe, subsidize.

Horizontality

VB be horizontal, lie, recline, couch, lie down, lie flat, lie prostrate, sprawl, loll, sit down, render horizontal, lay down, lay out, level, flatten, prostrate, knock down, floor, fell.

Interment

VB inter, bury, lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb, inhume, lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify, toll the knell, put to bed with a shovel, inurn, exhume, disinter, unearth.