verb
- intransitive to tend to, to have a tendency
- transitive to spread, to stretch out
- transitive to lay (cable)
- transitive to make (a bed)
- transitive to hang up (clothes)
- transitive to build (a bridge across an expanse)
- transitive to extend (the hand)
- transitive to floor (with a punch), to stretch out
- transitive to cast (a net)
- transitive to set (a trap)
- transitive to coat (with plaster)
- reflexive to lay oneself down