belay
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they belay | |
| he / she / it belays | |
| past simple belayed | |
| past participle belayed | |
| -ing form belaying |
- [intransitive, transitive] belay (something/somebody) (specialist)
(in climbing 攀缘 to attach a rope to a rock, etc; to make a person safe while climbing by attaching a rope to the person and to a rock, etc. 把（绳索）固定在岩石等上；把（攀岩者）用绳索拴在岩石等上 - [transitive] (used especially in orders on a ship) belay something (informal)
to stop doing something; to cancel an instruction that has been given 停止做某事；取消已发出的指令 Belay that order. 确保那个命令。
Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally in nautical use): from be- + the verb lay, on the pattern of Dutch beleggen.