lay away

reservar con un depósito, apartar

Reservar un artículo pagando un depósito; la tienda lo guarda mientras completas el pago poco a poco.

En inglés sencillo: To ask a shop to keep an item while you pay for it over time.

• Can I lay away this coat?
• We laid the sofa away until we could pay for it.
• He is laying away a bicycle for his daughter.

Cómo se usa: lay something away (She laid the coat away and paid a little each week.)

Sinónimos: reserve

Expresiones frecuentes: lay away something, lay something away

guardar, reservar

Guardar algo para poder usarlo más adelante.

En inglés sencillo: To keep something so that you can use it later.

• We lay away food for winter.
• She laid some money away for emergencies.
• They are laying away supplies for the long journey.

Cómo se usa: lay something away for something (They laid some food away for the winter.)

Sinónimos: set aside, put away, save

Expresiones frecuentes: lay away something, lay something away

enterrar, sepultar

Poner el cuerpo de una persona muerta en una tumba.

En inglés sencillo: To put a dead person’s body in a grave.

• They laid her away beside her husband.
• The family laid him away in the village churchyard.
• She wished to be laid away near the sea.

Cómo se usa: lay someone away in something (They laid him away in a quiet village cemetery.)

Sinónimos: bury, lay to rest, inter

Expresiones frecuentes: lay someone away, lay away someone