disable vs lay up

disable and lay up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
disable	No	No	Yes	No
lay up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, lay up is a hyponym of disable; that is, lay up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than disable:

Other hyponyms of disable include nobble, pinion, confine, constrain, hold, restrain.

disable (verb)	lay up (verb)
injure permanently	disable or confine, as with an illness
make unable to perform a certain action