lay aside

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lay aside something

to ignore something or decide that it is not important. Our neighbors laid aside their personal safety to help us save our animals from the fire.

Related vocabulary: set aside something

See also: aside, lay

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He advised him and his warriors, therefore, to lay aside their weapons and war shirts, wash off the paint from their faces and bodies, and appear like clean and civil savages, to receive the strangers courteously. Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context Sir James did make proposals to me for Frederica; but Frederica, who was born to be the torment of my life, chose to set herself so violently against the match that I thought it better to lay aside the scheme for the present. Lady Susan by Austen, Jane View in context And, besides, the profitable offices under the government were filled by men who had lived in London, and had there contracted fashionable and luxurious habits of living which they would not now lay aside. Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context More results

References in classic literature

He advised him and his warriors, therefore, to lay aside their weapons and war shirts, wash off the paint from their faces and bodies, and appear like clean and civil savages, to receive the strangers courteously.

Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context

Sir James did make proposals to me for Frederica; but Frederica, who was born to be the torment of my life, chose to set herself so violently against the match that I thought it better to lay aside the scheme for the present.

Lady Susan by Austen, Jane View in context

And, besides, the profitable offices under the government were filled by men who had lived in London, and had there contracted fashionable and luxurious habits of living which they would not now lay aside.

Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

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