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Meanings of lay into in English

Hit violently, as in an attack.

Synonyms
Examples for "lam into"
Examples for "lam into"
1
Is that why he didn't-didn'tlam into me?
Go Set a Watchman
2
And he's got savvee enough to know from now on that that same stone wall will be always there ready for him to lam into.
Burning Daylight
3
You lammed into him, and she took up and defended him.
Bruce
4
How I lammed into the beggar!
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
5
"It's the one you lammed into the Huns with," explained Bart.
Army Boys on German Soil: Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs
1
As for him, he would love the chance to tear into Bartomeu.
The Guardian
2
He'd just started to tear into me again when the telephone rang.
Hell hath no fury
3
She saw that he brushed more than one tear into the waves.
Opening a Chestnut Burr
4
She just shoved him aside and bent to tear into the reindeer.
Promise of the wolves: a novel
5
He saw them tear into the four men, saw the wounds burst open.
Phantoms
1
She opened her mouth like she was going to lace into him-butthen shrugged.
Second glance
2
These joyful bounds just lace into the stuff of my memories and stay there forever.
Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story
3
Alicia put out her hand and tucked an irrelevant bit of lace into Hilda's bosom.
The Path of a Star
4
So saying the mad girl took up a pair of scissors and cut the lace into fragments.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
5
As soon as we are on the street in front of the boutique I lace into her.
My Sister's Keeper
1
The longing to pitch into somebody was so strong you couldn't resist.
Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
2
But I'll walk into your parlour, while I pitch into your crib.
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
3
Throw the pitch into that, it's very, very tough for the players.
The Guardian
4
If you don't look out, Gascoyne will pitch into you, old boy.
Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader: A Tale of the Pacific
5
Do pitch into the broiled bones while they are hot; never mind me.
Castle Richmond
Usage of lay into in English
1
The front line of Surakan ships continued to lay into the cruiser.
Envoy
2
Don't think I didn't lay into him after he left you.
A taste of magic
3
Should he lay into me, or drink a beer with me?
Self's punishment
4
Molière introduced a couplet of this lay into his Alceste.
Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
5
I looked back to see a team of cops lay into her with batons.
Crooked little vein
6
The blazing doors had turned the straw on which they lay into a prairie fire.
With the Allies
7
I waited for Macon to lay into Marian, too, but he didn't say a word.
Beautiful creatures
8
I leave a parking lot in the outskirts of L.A. and lay into the throttle.
Wired
9
We were ready to lay into them but again the judge would not have it.
Blood Meridian
10
They're always heroes, every time they lay into us.'
Melnitz
11
Bonnie held up a hand to quiet Armen before he could lay into Keene again.
The witch of agnesi
12
On the other side of the debate are others who can't wait to lay into him.
The Guardian
13
He lay into your kid brother or something?
James Potter and the Vault of Destinies
14
I believe that it turned where it lay into a long, narrow mountain out in the East sea.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
15
By the end, on the rare occasions Benítez was mentioned at all, it was to lay into him.
The Guardian
16
And did you have to lay into her quite so hard over chalk seventeen having their shots delayed?
Countdown: The Liberators-ARC
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Lay into through the time
Lay into across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common